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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: vapier@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:26:47
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0910121326j313910b2kaf9f363589ce40ff@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay by Thomas Sachau
1 On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
2 >> the abi-wrapper doesnt look terribly appealing.  why dont we use broken/custom
3 >> -config handling as incentive to convert packages to .pc files.  pkg-config
4 >> handles ABI/cross-compile splitting cleanly and transparently.
5 >
6 > I am totally unfamiliar with pkg-config, so that would take some time or a helping hand.
7 >
8
9 You can take a look at http://is.gd/4fSfN for an overview (google
10 cache of original since fdo downtime wiped home directories). I
11 completely agree with Mike that pkg-config makes all this much simpler
12 and consistent.
13
14 >> bash-4 is stable, so we could start depending on it.
15 >
16 > It still has 3 unstable KEYWORDS including mips.
17 >
18
19 ~mips ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd
20
21 ^^ None of these arches do stable keywords...
22
23
24 --
25 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
26
27 GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo