Re: [HEADSUP] Please try to build your packages for 64 bit

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 22 23:14, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 19.04.2013 12:45, schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> >Hi maintainers,
> >
> >
> >the 64 bit Cygwin seems to be quite stable now.  We're still suffering
> >from a gcc problem which seems to affect C++ inline methods using
> >templates, so some C++ packages might not be buildable yet(*), but other
> >than that it looks pretty good.
> >
> >I would like to ask those of you owning a 64 bit Windows machine to have
> >a look into the 64 bit distro and to try to build your packages.  ...
> Is there any plan to distinguish 64 bit binary packages from 32 bit
> binary packages by a naming scheme?
> That might be useful to avoid accidental confusion e.g. during upload.

We don't do this (yet?), I was simply expecting a "64" somewhere in the
subject.

I still think it would make sense to name the packages according to
their architecture in future:

  foo-1.0-1.i686.tar.bz2
  bar-2.3-4.x86_64.tar.bz
  baz-5.0-8.noarch.tar.bz2
  
We should also find a simply mechanism to share the noarch packages
between the i686 and x86_64 release area, either by adding a noarch
dir or by automatic copying or linking the files (or parent dirs)
between the i686 and x86_64 release areas.

That would also be helpful for automated uploading, but so far the
discussions were not forthcoming.


Corinna

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