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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 09:44:26
Message-Id: 20091005094521.GD20221@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] dev-lang/python-2.6.2-r2 dropped ~m68k-mint from libffi by Fabian Groffen
1 On 04-10-2009 10:02:07 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > > What happened ?
3 >
4 > Good questions. I merged this change from gx86 already with the
5 > comment that this would probably break (again ...). Also in the ebuild,
6 > internal libffi is removed conditional now, but that would mean
7 > virtual/libffi would have to have keywords for ~mips and ~m68k now.
8 > It does not. Seems bugzie is down at the moment, so I can't check if
9 > there are already bugs for this issue.
10
11 ~m68k and ~mips keywords were just recklessly dropped from the ebuild.
12
13 Given that python compiled fine at some point in the past, does Python's
14 internal libffi compile on m68k-mint, or did it just skip libffi
15 dependant modules?
16
17
18 --
19 Fabian Groffen
20 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>