Please build 64 bit packages

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 25 13:10:00 GMT 2013


On Jul 25 08:35, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> On 25 July 2013 08:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > now that the 64 bit version is in the wild, it would be incredibly cool
> > if you could all have a look into building your packages, which are not
> > yet available, for the 64 bit distro.
> 
> I still have no access to a 64-bit machine to validate any of the
> packages I maintain.  I can cross-compile them (as I did with mksh),
> but I can't guarantee they work.  Should I proceed?

No chance to install a VM?

> > Alternatively, for those of your packages which are "noarch" packages,
> > for instance perl or python scripts, please drop usa note here along
> > the lines of "please copy package foo from 32 to 64 bit distro".
> 
> I think python-gdata and googlecl fall in to this category, so please
> feel free to copy them over.

Yes, sure, that would be nice.


Thanks,
Corinna

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