Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Gordon Pettey
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Kristian Fiskers > > By all means, thanks for informing about an alternative, but I > personally believe that it is important for the overall distribution > to keep a wider perspective than personal non-free use (even if this > is a developers primary focus as reaso

[gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michał Górny wrote: > > Have you tried mcpdf? I heard about it now for the first time. If I understand correctly, it uses the same library as pdfTK, only a somewhat later version (e.g. with improved unicode handling). The main difference seems to be that it does not insist on gcj but apparently

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 08:32:57AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Anthony G. Basile > wrote: > > On 12/07/14 05:37, Michał Górny wrote: > >> > >> If you're interested in testing it, 'layman -a mgorny' and enjoy. I'd > >> appreciate any bug reports, except for those co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:21:50 +0100 Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 12/07/2014 10:05 PM, Tim Harder wrote: > > On 2014-12-07 15:02, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, > t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/07/2014 10:05 PM, Tim Harder wrote: > On 2014-12-07 15:02, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, there is still no replacement for the latter which works as good, especially i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Tim Harder
On 2014-12-07 15:02, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > >> The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, > >> there is still no replacement for the latter which works as > >> good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to process. Loosing gcj > >> would therefore be a real loss. > > As long

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/07/2014 07:45 PM, Tim Harder wrote: > On 2014-12-07 13:15, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, >> there is still no replacement for the latter which works as >> good, especially if you have tricky

[gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=awt on sys-devel/gcc[gcj]

2014-12-07 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, developers. A quick sit: right now toolchain.eclass is a big blocker for multilib that doesn't seem to want to fix itself. Considering the complexity of the eclass, the amount of automagic dependencies and the size of resulting patches ([1] for a start but it lacks EAPI conditionals), I'm t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Tim Harder
On 2014-12-07 13:15, Martin Vaeth wrote: > The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk > Unfortunately, there is still no replacement for the latter > which works as good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to > process. Loosing gcj would therefore be a real loss. As long as you're fine with any

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-12-07, o godz. 18:15:50 Martin Vaeth napisał(a): > Michał Górny wrote: > > > > 2. No gcj support. [...] Not sure if anybody > > actually uses it, and if it is actually useful for anything > > The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk > Unfortunately, there is still no replacement

[gentoo-dev] Re: sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michał Górny wrote: > > 2. No gcj support. [...] Not sure if anybody > actually uses it, and if it is actually useful for anything The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, there is still no replacement for the latter which works as good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to p

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 12/07/14 05:37, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> If you're interested in testing it, 'layman -a mgorny' and enjoy. I'd >> appreciate any bug reports, except for those covering things i've >> already listed as missing :). Any further comments w

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-12-07, o godz. 08:05:59 "Anthony G. Basile" napisał(a): > On 12/07/14 05:37, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > If you're interested in testing it, 'layman -a mgorny' and enjoy. I'd > > appreciate any bug reports, except for those covering things i've > > already listed as missing :). Any furt

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/07/14 05:37, Michał Górny wrote: If you're interested in testing it, 'layman -a mgorny' and enjoy. I'd appreciate any bug reports, except for those covering things i've already listed as missing :). Any further comments will be very helpful in deciding on the way forward. Removing the ec

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-12-07, o godz. 04:43:05 Daniel Campbell napisał(a): > > If you're interested in testing it, 'layman -a mgorny' and enjoy. > > I'd appreciate any bug reports, except for those covering things > > i've already listed as missing :). Any further comments will be > > very helpful in decid

Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2014 04:37 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, developers and users. > > As some of you know, the toolchain packages in Gentoo suffer from > lack-of-sanity issues and their maintainers are completely > unwilling to improve things. I have final

[gentoo-dev] sys-devel/gcc::mgorny up for testing

2014-12-07 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, developers and users. As some of you know, the toolchain packages in Gentoo suffer from lack-of-sanity issues and their maintainers are completely unwilling to improve things. I have finally decided to start working on a fork of the sys-devel/gcc ebuilds, and I have some bits ready for init