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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds.
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:56:28
Message-Id: CAEdQ38GfEbup0aRmB18q2AiwXb05J5vS=Dq70pBks+Ze3V6ksA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] autotools-multilib: wrapper eclass for multilib builds. by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > It is a simple eclass using autotools out-of-source builds to build
3 > packages for multiple ABIs when multilib is supported.
4
5 Thanks a lot, Michał! This looks good to me.
6
7 > Use case: xorg packages, ask Matt.
8
9 So the idea is that users want up-to-date 32-bit drivers for games and
10 WINE. The emul- packages aren't a very good solution for a number of
11 reasons.
12
13 I'd like to add multilib USE flags to Mesa and thus its dependencies.
14 I realized that almost everything in x11-libs/ could be converted very
15 easily, which would allow us to get rid of emul-linux-x86-xlibs in
16 addition to emul-linux-x86-opengl.

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