Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

Doug Goldstein schrieb:
> I need to be able to have ppc/arm/etc users install a package that can
> only be built on x86/amd64. The packages in question are
> sys-apps/seabios and sys-apps/vgabios. The point is that a PPC machine
> that's using qemu-system-x86_64 still needs to use seabios and
> vgabios. I was planning on building the package on my own hardware and
> posting up sys-apps/seabios-bin and sys-apps/vgabios-bin unless of
> course someone has a better suggestion.

Possibly a USE flag could be added to seabios/vgabios, similar to the
"fontforge" flag in font packages, enabled by default and masked in
profiles that don't support building from source.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn