Re: Debian and Ubuntu packages - 2015/06/03

[David Chisnall]

On 4 Jun 2015, at 08:51, Philippe Roussel <p.o.roussel@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:11:21PM +1000, Svetlana A. Tkachenko wrote:
>> Oh, and my understanding is that Debian's gnustep-* packages are
>> compiled using gcc. Am I wrong? If not, then how may this valuable set
>> of packages compiled with clang be put into the main Debian
>> repositories?   
> 
> You would have to wait for debian to switch to clang as official
> compiler I think, and that could take a while :o)

Does Debian not have infrastructure for compiling some packages with different 
compilers?  What do they do about things like Sphinx that won’t build with a 
recent GCC?

David

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