On Sunday 16 August 2009 08:37:37 Thomas Sachau wrote:
> -for the portage version: It is also in the multilib overlay, but in a
>  different branch called portage-multilib. To use this, you should read the
>  instructions at [1] (doc/portage-multilib-instructions). This one should
>  also mainly work, but there is probably a good amount of packages in the
>  main tree, which may refuse to work with it.

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.

bash-4 is stable, so we could start depending on it.

you dont save/restore CPPFLAGS

is there documentation that covers the proposed changes/design to portage ?  
i'm not looking for high level (it runs src_compile twice).  i dont recall 
seeing details posted to the portage or gentoo mailing lists ...  it's hard to 
review `git diff portage-svn..master`.
-mike