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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:34:44
Message-Id: 201109151534.07155.vapier@gentoo.org
1 ive converted my system over to x86/amd64/x32 multilib for funs. but i can
2 see how some people wont want all three all the time. so the question is how
3 we want to make this available to users at the release/profile level.
4
5 background: x32 is a new ABI that runs on 64bit x86_64 processors. see [1].
6 you'll need gcc-4.7+, binutils-2.21.50+, glibc-2.15+, and linux-3.2+.
7
8 KEYWORDS wise, i'd like to avoid having to add "x32" everywhere. instead,
9 reusing "amd64". only downside is the existing USE=amd64 behavior, but we can
10 address that by making MULTILIB_ABIS a USE_EXPAND (i think this came up before
11 with the portage multilib discussion).
12
13 release wise, we could ship a single multilib stage (x86/amd64/x32) and make
14 it easy to convert to a subset. that way we still need only one.
15
16 other thoughts ?
17 -mike
18
19 [1] https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] x32 release candidate Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>