[gentoo-alt] Gentoo RAP bootstrap script

Dear all,

This is a follow up of Prefix libc announcement

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/6638

As you know, we are forming a GLEP to standardize the solution, and
codenamed this variant of Gentoo /RAP/.

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/87466

Here we announce the bootstrap script of RAP at

   http://dev.gentoo.org/~heroxbd/bootstrap-rap.sh

which is based on the official Prefix one, and exclusive to linux.


The highlights of RAP (which is different from Prefix) are,

  1. newest glibc from Gentoo tree, no legacy glibc issues

  2. implicit keywording, treating * and *-linux equally.
     For example, we accept 'amd64' as well as 'amd64-linux'

  3. multilib possible. Though not fully tested, we have multilib
     support in mind and maintain compatibility with Gentoo. For example
     on amd64, we systematically use $EPREFIX/{usr/,}lib64. Thanks to
     our own dynamic linker from glibc.

     
You are welcomed to try it out and give feedbacks.

     
My credits goes to my fellow Ruud Koolen (redlizard), my mentor Luca
Barbato (lu_zero) and Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) who has always been
encouraging us to put this plan into reality.

More follows.

Cheers,
Benda