[Bug 851810] Review Request: mingw-mpfr - MinGW C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851810

Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at 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

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