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On 20 April 2016 at 18:52, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi everyone: |
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> After doing some experimentation with a mingw crossdev, I found that I |
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> needed to do a lot of EXTRA_ECONF settings in combination with |
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> USE="aqua" in order to get packages supporting a win32 API to be |
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> configured appropriately. In order to support this situation better, |
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> I propose adding a new global flag 'win32', modelled after the 'aqua' |
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> flag, that can be used instead to provide this configuration directly |
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> in ebuilds. |
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> Just like USE="aqua", the flag will be use.mask'ed in base/ so that |
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> users don't erroneously enable it. I didn't un-use.mask it anywhere |
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> yet since (A) I don't have a prefix/windows environment to test, and |
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> (B) the mingw-based crossdev environments use profiles/embedded by |
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> default, which doesn't inherit from profiles/base and so doesn't have |
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> the use.mask restriction. |
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> The attached patch lists the necessary changes to profile/ as well as |
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> the addition of USE=win32 to *ONE VERSION* of gtk+:2, gtk+:3 and cairo |
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> (the actual commit will include more versions). |
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> Comments? |
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You should be able to achieve similar behavior by looking at libc |
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and/or CHOST without introducing new USE flag, just like we do for |
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aix/solaris/freebsd etc... |
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