Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819670 --- Comment #8 from Eric Smith <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-05-12 18:42:37 EDT --- The purpose of mingw-llvm is to be able to build applications for Windows that use the LLVM libraries, e.g., if they want to use the LLVM JIT capabilities. Such an app might possibly also be able to emit bitcode or even native code files, though that isn't what I use it for personally. The purpose of static libraries is to allow such programs to be built statically, to avoid having to distribute them with a bunch of DLLs (including but not limited to the LLVM DLLs). In other words, exactly the same reason as for packaging any other mingnn-*-static subpackage. I don't have any clue what an "llvm.exe" would do, even if it existed, which AFAIK it doesn't. Certainly this package doesn't contain one. The various .exe files that are in this package may or may not be useful to people that use applications built with mingw-llvm, depending on exactly what those applications do. I've had occasion to use a few of them. I could remove them from the package, and only include the libraries, but I thought that as long as the exe files were built and work, there was little advantage to not packaging them. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review