Re: [gentoo-dev] MULTI_ABI support addition to main tree portage

[Pacho Ramos]

El sáb, 29-01-2011 a las 13:10 -0500, Nathan Phillip Brink escribió:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 06:03:10PM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I would like to know what is "blocking" this from landing main tree in
> > the "near" future, as I reviewed:
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@l.g.o/msg41737.html
> >
> > and looks like there wasn't major problems (at least commented in this
> > thread)
>
> There are still a number of known build failures, tracked in
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/alias/portage-multilib . There are probably
> many more portage-multilib-related build failures which haven't been
> encountered yet nor reported. Also, even these reported bugs are not
> necessarily fixed first because they only affect us the minority ;-).

OK, thanks. Maybe bug 306835 should block bug 145737 instead of
depending on it, not?

>
> Most everything is easy to debug and as simple as replacing calls to
> $(LD) in poorly-written Makefileswith with calls to $(CC), fixing
> packages which ignore CFLAGS (where we store our -m32) or LDFLAGS
> (where we now also store -m32 since one's not allowed to require
> buildsystems to call $(CC) with $(CFLAGS) when objects are being
> linked into an executable or library).
>
> However, packages which use qmake or cmake macros installed by KDE are
> more difficult to debug and there are other funny issues such as
> CFLAGS being stored by a library's buildsystem and stored into
> /usr/share instead of an ABI-dependent directory, breaking packages
> which use that library... ;-)
>
> Also, there are still some decisions/changes to portage-multilib which
> might be made The most recent idea discussed was: should ${ARCH}
> useflags (like SRC_URI="x86? ( http://host/my-binari-x86.tar.bz2 )")
> be replaced with ${ABI} useflags or should we rewrite a bunch of
> ebuilds in the tree to be multilib-aware? For example:
>
> Say we have
> ABI=x86
> ARCH=amd64
>
> Does ``use x86'' return true or do we need to use ``use multilib_abi_x86''?
> Do detect the true arch, do we need ``use arch_amd64'' or does ``use amd64'' still return true?
>

Where do you discuss things like this? IRC channel? Mailing-list?
Thanks :-)