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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: aballier@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds.
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:22:52
Message-Id: 20120923092120.11de850c@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds. by Alexis Ballier
1 On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:46:02 -0300
2 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:24:46 +0200
5 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > It is a simple eclass using autotools out-of-source builds to build
8 > > packages for multiple ABIs when multilib is supported.
9 > >
10 >
11 > to some extent, can't you do the same by unpacking twice to different
12 > $S and calling src_prepare/compile/install instead of their
13 > autotools-utils counterpart with tweaked $S so that it works with
14 > almost every ebuild ?
15
16 That would make this solution inefficient. The good solutions should
17 not be made ugly to support corner cases.
18
19 > -- this really starts to resemble multilib portage :)
20
21 I've said already that multilib is a thing which could be done by
22 eclasses and doesn't need making PM scary. And Tommy says that
23 multilib-portage handles packages having IUSE=multilib fine.
24
25 --
26 Best regards,
27 Michał Górny

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