https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851810
Erik van Pienbroek erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl changed:
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--- Comment #10 from Erik van Pienbroek erik-fedora@vanpienbroek.nl --- (In reply to comment #9)
Additional question: Does any active of variant of EPEL support any of the mingw-w64 toolchains?
I could be wrong, but AFAIK, all EPELs only support the older mingw32 toolchains. This would mean all Fedora >= 17 mingw-w64 packages would be unsupported for EPEL.
Hi Ralf,
Your assumption is correct. RHEL6 only supports packages based on the old MinGW packaging guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW_Old
One of the rules of EPEL is that it's forbidden to replace packages which are already in the RHEL trees. Therefore we can't introduce the mingw-w64 toolchain and the new packaging macros in EPEL unless Red Hat decides to introduce the base mingw-w64 packages in RHEL6. As I'm not a Red Hat employee I don't have any further information about any possible plans Red Hat might have about introducing the mingw-w64 toolchain in RHEL6