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

[Philippe Roussel]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 11:07:09AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> 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?  

The truth is that I don't have a clue... They may have something like
that and it would be nice to know it. If someone have informations,
please share.

Philippe
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