Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving real multilib support into main tree portage with request for council decision

[Thomas Sachau]

Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> On Sunday 11 October 2009 06:21:14 Thomas Sachau wrote:
>> as announced in a previous mail, i created a fork of portage, which has
>>  support to create 32bit libs during compile phase for 64bit platforms
>>  (currently amd64 tested, ppc64 untested).
>>
>> In short, it does execute every src_* phase twice with keeping a workdir
>>  for every ABI and saving some default environment vars (like *FLAGS).
>>  Since the current ABI is the last one in this order, the 64bit phase will
>>  overwrite everthing from 32bit phase except those parts, which have a
>>  different install location, so mostly libs, which go in lib32 instead of
>>  lib64.
>>
>> A current ebuild and docs for using it are currently in the
>>  portage-multilib branch of the multilib overlay.
>
> your git instructions are overly complicated (doc/portage-multilib-
> instructions).  your two checkouts and .git/config edit are one command:
> git checkout -b portage-multilib origin/portage-multilib
>
> you really should line wrap that file too
>

both changed

>> I asked zmedico about inclusion into the main svn tree of portage, but he
>>  requested a council ok before he would be accepting it. So this is my
>>  request for discussion and ok (in tomorrows or the following meeting) from
>>  the council.
>
> getting review + approval in a day or two is pretty unreasonable, especially
> when info as to what is being changed/proposed isnt well documented.
> -mike

Thats why my intention was to get it on todays agenda for discussion (and more people looking at it)
and possible decision at the following meeting, so the wording may have been unclear.

-- 
Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer