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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 dropped ~m68k-mint from libffi
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:57:14
Message-Id: 20091005105809.GG20221@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 dropped ~m68k-mint from libffi by Alan Hourihane
1 On 05-10-2009 11:56:11 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:45 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
3 > > On 04-10-2009 10:02:07 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
4 > > > > What happened ?
5 > > >
6 > > > Good questions. I merged this change from gx86 already with the
7 > > > comment that this would probably break (again ...). Also in the ebuild,
8 > > > internal libffi is removed conditional now, but that would mean
9 > > > virtual/libffi would have to have keywords for ~mips and ~m68k now.
10 > > > It does not. Seems bugzie is down at the moment, so I can't check if
11 > > > there are already bugs for this issue.
12 > >
13 > > ~m68k and ~mips keywords were just recklessly dropped from the ebuild.
14 > >
15 > > Given that python compiled fine at some point in the past, does Python's
16 > > internal libffi compile on m68k-mint, or did it just skip libffi
17 > > dependant modules?
18 >
19 > python-2.6.2-r2 compiled just fine without libffi when the ebuild had
20 > the ~m68k-mint keyword on virtual/libffi.
21
22 yeah, but back then it didn't rm -Rf internal/libffi
23
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25 --
26 Fabian Groffen
27 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 dropped ~m68k-mint from libffi Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-alt] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 dropped ~m68k-mint from libffi Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-alt] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 dropped ~m68k-mint from libffi Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>