Re: [gentoo-dev] Dynamic SLOTs

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:28 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> As for gcc slotting the cross-compiler, I don't think it's necessary nor
> has any bareing on cross-compilation. Having gcc respond to architecture
> USE flags (prepended with cc- if necessary) and building the
> cross-compilers in the same merge would work, no? No files get lost track
> of, all the compilers are upgraded on an emerge --update and, best yet,
> it's possible to do right now. Am I missing something here? Is there some
> reason that the gcc ebuilds couldn't work in that way? Same question re
> mod_php and mod_scgi.

doesnt work that way ... portage goes 'uh oh, packages with the same $SLOT in 
the same $ROOT, lets clean out the old one !'

cross compiling toolchains need to be in ROOT=/ while the cross compiled 
packages need to go in ROOT=/some/where/else

in other words, you try to merge a cross compiling version and blam, you lost 
your native one
-mike

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