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From: Homer Parker <hparker@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Whats dropping multilib?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:04:11
Message-Id: 1126548097.23326.3.camel@homer.homershut.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Whats dropping multilib? by Harald Schioeberg
1 On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 11:52 +0200, Harald Schioeberg wrote:
2 > > In other words, since you used the script to upgrade, the multilib
3 > flag
4 > > is not a choice, but forced enabled. Don't worry about it.
5 > > (make.defaults in the profile defines MULTILIB_ABIS)
6
7 It's not from using the script, it's the profile itself.
8
9 > I worry about it... it prevents cross-building gcc from the x86.
10 > Gentoo's glibc doesn't support multilib, and as such building the gcc
11 > with multilib is clearly a bug. A bug-report is pending (for quite a
12 > while now, donno the bug number as bugs.gentoo.org isn't responding, i
13 > think it was 97414).
14
15 It builds multilib by default. If you don't want multilib, use the
16 2005.1/no-multilib profile. It has changed from a USE flag to a profile.
17
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