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From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:17:00
Message-Id: 44AD27B6.4010008@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > You can do it through bashrc. But then, if this is about working around
3 > Portage's annoying lack of sane cross compile handling, why not put a
4 > little effort into fixing it properly rather than a lot of effort into
5 > making the tree more complicated?
6
7 Err, I think you're mixing up different things. How should portage be
8 able to do sane cross compiling if you control the instruction sets
9 through use flags which are blocked in profiles the build system is
10 using? In fact, moving away from use flags over to the real(TM) solution
11 is a step towards fixing the issue. Also, it doesn't make the tree more
12 complicated. It is far more intuitive that supported instruction sets
13 are used if the user doesn't explicitly wish not to than having some
14 strange use flags that don't mean what they're named like.
15
16 --
17 Kind Regards,
18
19 Simon Stelling
20 Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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22 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>