On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:02:50PM +0200, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> > Is there any specific reason you're using the content of the
> > LIBDIR_${ABI} variable? Maybe using the $ABI string as the USE flag
> > would be better, in some form of USE_EXPAND manner (cannot use them raw
> > as I believe we still have some code in the form of 'use $ARCH', which
> > might not behave sanely if say both amd64 and x86 were set.
> > 
> > Egs:
> > multilib AMD64:
> > USE="abi_x86 abi_amd64"
> > 
> > Multilib PPC64:
> > USE="abi_ppc abi_ppc64"
> > 
> > Multilib MIPS (SGI hardware)
> > USE="abi_n32 abi_n64"
> > 
> > Possible valid multilib sets on MIPS are:
> > [n32,n64] - at least one Gentoo system like this has been built.
> > [o32,o64]
> > [eabi,meabi] - docs fuzzy
> > [nubi]
> I dont mind using some other string here. So those USE flags would be fine for me. They could be
> USE_EXPANDed to e.g. for multilib amd64 ABI="x86 amd64"
I just one thought overnight on it, are we going to have a namespace
conflict with the variable?

make.defaults already uses ABI= to contain a single value, not be
multi-valued.

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