Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Emerging package as both 64 and 32 bit
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:18:52
Message-Id: 458437B6.5080204@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Emerging package as both 64 and 32 bit by Boky Boky
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4 Boky Boky wrote:
5 > Hi all.
6 >
7 > I'm sure this question must have been answered before, but I am slowly
8 > giving up on finding the solution after months of browsing.
9 >
10 >
11 > Anyways, is it possible to emerge the same package in parallel? As
12 > 32-bit and 64-bit version?
13 >
14 > Something in the lines of:
15 > ABI="amd64,x86" emerge libxml2
16 >
17 > or:
18 > emerge libxml2
19 > ABI="x86" emerge
20 > --some-option-to-ignore-already-installed-package-and-not-remove-it
21 > libxml2
22 >
23 >
24 > Namely, I am trying to compile openoffice (using ABI="x86") and some GTK
25 > themes.
26 >
27 > openoffice depends one some packages (libxml2, libz, ...) that need
28 > therefore need to exist in 32-bit and I'd like to have firefox (...and
29 > other 32bit apps) themed not just with themes that come with emul-*
30 > packages.
31 >
32 >
33 > Thank you for your replies,
34 > Boky
35 This is a limitation of portage, one which everyone on the amd64 team
36 wishes would go away. the best you could do now with portage would be
37 to make emul- packages for your deps or install manually. Expect a lot
38 of effort and mess either way you choose.
39
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