Re: Missing 64 bit packages

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

On Aug  6 20:48, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 05/08/2013 10:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > below's the latest list of packages yet mssing in the 64 bit distro.  It
> > got a bit shorter, but there's still a lot of stuff missing.  I'll look
> > into generating 64 bit packages for some of them as time permits, but it
> > would be better if the real maintainer could do the job.
> > 
> > There's also the problem of missing maintainers again.  Some of the
> > names in the below list didn't show up for a long time.  Please guys, be
> > so kind as to reply to this mail, so we can check if some packages are
> > orphaned, or if you are just busy.
> 
> > ORPHANED
> >   xmon
> 
> I do use this occasionally, so if Yaakov doesn't want this, I will adopt it.
> 
> > Jon Turney
> > 
> >   xlaunch
> >   xview
> 
> xlaunch is done.
> 
> There is no 64-bit version of xview.  It does not build correctly for x86_64.
>  It appears there were some efforts towards fixing this, but they were not
> completed and/or gave up in disgust since apparently fixing things will
> probably require fixing all xview clients as well ([1] has some of the hideous
> details)
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=125391

Ok, no worries.  I removed the xview package from cygwin-64bit-missing.


Thanks,
Corinna

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