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On Thursday 08 December 2011 16:40:58 Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On 12/08/2011 09:34 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 08 December 2011 16:29:15 Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> >> On 12/08/2011 09:22 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> >>> the releases will include all 3 ABIs (which only affects |
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> >>> gcc/glibc in terms of overhead). if people want to use x32 |
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> >>> with less other ABIs, then i think the expected use case will |
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> >>> be for them to set MULTILIB_ABIS in their make.conf: |
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> >>> /etc/make.conf:MULTILIB_ABIS="x32" |
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> >> |
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> >> What happens if all three ABIS are set in MULTILIB_ABIS? What |
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> >> would be the default ABI for compiled binaries? |
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> > |
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> > default ABI is controlled by $DEFAULT_ABI. the order of |
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> > $MULTILIB_ABIS does not matter anywhere. |
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> Doh! Right I forgot. I guess we need to create a quick draft and put |
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> it in amd64 project page. At least the MULTILIB_ABIS variable may be |
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> useful for people who want to try that or a quick HowTo on how to live |
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> migrate from amd64 to x32 ABIS and vice versa. |
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i want to hold off on that until i commit biarch support, and then verify the |
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upgrade path actually works :) |
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-mike |