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From: Greg Turner <gmt@×××××.us>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] crossdev and multilib interference
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 12:01:34
Message-Id: CA+VB3NR+iJ7+HZQvi9qZcV_YxfPW=CqNuvqggxKhFAktK5eExQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] crossdev and multilib interference by Alexandre Rostovtsev
1 On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
2 <tetromino@g.o>wrote:
3
4 > is there any legitimate reason for
5 > wanting crossdev's i686 wrappers when on a multilib amd64 profile?
6 >
7
8 One other note: legitimacy is in the eye of the legitimizer, I suppose, but
9 there are sometimes practical reasons to want a no-multilib compiler.
10
11 A trivial example is that some primitive build scripts go ape when CC has a
12 space in it (but this is certainly debatable as to its legitimacy, given
13 the obvious work-arounds).