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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
Subject: Re: Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:56:45 +0530
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
>> the abi-wrapper doesnt look terribly appealing.  why dont we use broken/custom
>> -config handling as incentive to convert packages to .pc files.  pkg-config
>> handles ABI/cross-compile splitting cleanly and transparently.
>
> I am totally unfamiliar with pkg-config, so that would take some time or a helping hand.
>

You can take a look at http://is.gd/4fSfN for an overview (google
cache of original since fdo downtime wiped home directories). I
completely agree with Mike that pkg-config makes all this much simpler
and consistent.

>> bash-4 is stable, so we could start depending on it.
>
> It still has 3 unstable KEYWORDS including mips.
>

~mips ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd

^^ None of these arches do stable keywords...


-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo


References:
Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay
-- Thomas Sachau
Re: Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay
-- Mike Frysinger
Re: Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay
-- Thomas Sachau
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