Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds.

[Peter Stuge]

Alexis Ballier wrote:
> - I have package foo and package bar, both depending on ffmpeg and
> canditates for a multilib build. However, package foo does not link to
> ffmpeg but simply spawns the 'ffmpeg' binary to process some files,
> package bar links to libavcodec. You need ffmpeg[multilib] for a
> multilib build of bar but not for foo. How do you distinguish between
> the two ?

foo.ebuild has RDEPEND=ffmpeg
bar.ebuild has DEPEND=ffmpeg[multilib?]

Right?


> - When an out-of-tree build is possible, it is more efficient to do it
>   that way while multilib-portage will probably run the full src_*
>   phases twice.

Certainly.


//Peter