Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

Ühel kenal päeval, N, 21.04.2016 kell 15:42, kirjutas Ian Stakenvicius: > b) -1 for making it global right now pending resolution of logistics > for the profiles/base/use.mask entry, I don't think it's unprecedented to just globally use.mask a USE flag even if it's not declared a global USE flag.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

On 21/04/16 11:31 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, K, 20.04.2016 kell 22:18, kirjutas Mart Raudsepp: >> Basically the only real point I have is that anything kernel_* to >> control this probably doesn't make sense. >> > > Oh, just to clarify and avoid misunderstanding: > I did not

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

Ühel kenal päeval, K, 20.04.2016 kell 22:18, kirjutas Mart Raudsepp: > Basically the only real point I have is that anything kernel_* to > control this probably doesn't make sense. > Oh, just to clarify and avoid misunderstanding: I did not intend to ack the changes to gdk-pixbuf and gtk+ with

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

> On Apr 20, 2016, at 6:51 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: > >> On 20/04/16 12:58, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> On 20/04/16 03:41 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: According to 'file' the binary format is actually "PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows" for a

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

On 20/04/16 12:58, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 20/04/16 03:41 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >>> According to 'file' the binary format is actually "PE32 executable >>> (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows" for a random *.exe file in my >>> /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/usr/bin That is because Mingw is

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

On 20/04/16 03:41 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 4/20/16 3:30 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> On 20/04/16 03:01 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> >>> The way I think of it is >> >>> the operating system (ie kernel) = kernel_Winnt the system >>> libraries (=~libc)= elibc_Winnt the executable

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

On 4/20/16 3:30 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 20/04/16 03:01 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > >> The way I think of it is > >> the operating system (ie kernel) = kernel_Winnt the system >> libraries (=~libc)= elibc_Winnt the executable binary format >> = win32 > >> I don't know that we

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/20/2016 02:18 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, N, 21.04.2016 kell 06:53, kirjutas Kent > Fredric: >> On 21 April 2016 at 06:38, Ian Stakenvicius >> wrote: >>> Well so far the only needs I have run into for

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/04/16 03:01 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > > The way I think of it is > > the operating system (ie kernel) = kernel_Winnt the system > libraries (=~libc)= elibc_Winnt the executable binary format > = win32 > > I don't know that we need

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/04/16 03:18 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, N, 21.04.2016 kell 06:53, kirjutas Kent > Fredric: >> On 21 April 2016 at 06:38, Ian Stakenvicius >> wrote: >>> Well so far the only needs I have run into for the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

Ühel kenal päeval, N, 21.04.2016 kell 06:53, kirjutas Kent Fredric: > On 21 April 2016 at 06:38, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > Well so far the only needs I have run into for the win32 flag has > > been in relation to choosing UI toolkit support for cairo and gtk+ > > (and possibly

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

On 4/20/16 2:17 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 20 Apr 2016 21:01, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> On 20 April 2016 at 18:52, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> >>> Comments? >> >> You should be able to achieve similar behavior by looking at libc >> and/or CHOST without introducing new USE flag, just like we do

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

On 21 April 2016 at 06:38, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > Well so far the only needs I have run into for the win32 flag has > been in relation to choosing UI toolkit support for cairo and gtk+ > (and possibly others in the future), which is why I saw the parallel. Given you're not

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/04/16 02:22 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 20/04/16 19:17, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> agreed ... we have kernel_Winnt & elibc_Winnt already. i >> think those represent a mingw environment (vs a cygwin env). > Surely 'winnt' is a somewhat

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/04/16 02:17 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 20 Apr 2016 21:01, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> On 20 April 2016 at 18:52, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> After doing some experimentation with a mingw crossdev, I >>> found that I needed to do a lot of

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

On 20/04/16 19:17, Mike Frysinger wrote: > agreed ... we have kernel_Winnt & elibc_Winnt already. i think > those represent a mingw environment (vs a cygwin env). Surely 'winnt' is a somewhat out-of-date and potentially confusing flag? Can't we migrate to a win32 and win64 as pertaining to

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

On 20 April 2016 at 18:52, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > After doing some experimentation with a mingw crossdev, I found that I > needed to do a lot of EXTRA_ECONF settings in combination with > USE="aqua" in order to get packages supporting a win32 API to be >

[gentoo-dev] RFC: new USE="win32" flag for mingw and prefix/windows support

Hi everyone: After doing some experimentation with a mingw crossdev, I found that I needed to do a lot of EXTRA_ECONF settings in combination with USE="aqua" in order to get packages supporting a win32 API to be configured appropriately. In order to support this situation better, I propose