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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:21:54
Message-Id: 201206290120.30400.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] My wishlist for EAPI 5 by Maxim Kammerer
1 On Wednesday 20 June 2012 16:39:42 Maxim Kammerer wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
3 > > Multilib (and/or multiarch) support
4 >
5 > Sorry for a possibly ignorant question. Does multilib support include
6 > the ability to build Busybox against uclibc (on a glibc system)?
7
8 i'm not sure Richard knows exactly what he is asking for. multilib does not
9 cover different C libraries, but multiarch does. the former is what Thomas has
10 been working on (multilib portage) while the later is basically cross-
11 compiling (use crossdev) and is unrealistic for EAPI=5 integration (and i
12 might even say isn't really a problem anymore that needs "solving").
13 -mike

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