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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib clean up
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:30:59
Message-Id: 201103071729.59324.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib clean up by Thomas Sachau
1 On Monday, March 07, 2011 12:35:53 Thomas Sachau wrote:
2 > Am 07.03.2011 11:24, schrieb Mike Frysinger:
3 > > also, i'll be converting the glibc ebuilds do always invoke the
4 > > multilib_env helper functions. this will allow us to drop the
5 > > {C,LD}FLAGS_xxx and friends from profiles since glibc was the main
6 > > consumer. i imagine this inadvertently break some other packages, so
7 > > if people want to test this on their own systems before i make the
8 > > commit, that'd be cool. the plan would be for said breakage will go
9 > > through bugzilla to get the ebuild updated rather than reverting the
10 > > profile.
11 >
12 > Please leave those vars in the profile, i depend on them in
13 > multilib-portage to crosscompile e.g. for x86 on the amd64 profile. If you
14 > remove them now, they would be re-added again once multilib-portage (and
15 > the related EAPI) become official, so imho we can just leave them in for
16 > now.
17
18 these need to be centralized somehow. duplicating multilib.eclass and the
19 profiles indefinitely isnt going to fly.
20
21 perhaps we unify all the multilib settings into one file such as
22 base/make.defaults ... that would require normalizing of the ABI value across
23 all targets, but i dont think that's an issue.
24 -mike

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