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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new arch, WAS: support for i386
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:20:30
Message-Id: 1161526648.28249.7.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new arch, WAS: support for i386 by Stephen Bennett
1 On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 12:12 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote:
2 > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:05:44 +0000
3 > Francesco Riosa <vivo@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > may be the time to add a new arch "386" ?
6 >
7 > If by new arch you mean new KEYWORD, no. It's pointless, and you'd
8 > have a hell of a time finding anyone to maintain the keywords. A
9 > seperate i386 profile under default-linux/x86, though, with its own
10 > package.mask file and regular x86 keywords, may be a useful thing to
11 > have depending how the glibc stuff works out.
12
13 Well, default-linux/x86/no-nptl suffices until such point as glibc < 2.6
14 gets some nasty vulnerability that we cannot fix.
15
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17 Chris Gianelloni
18 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
19 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
20 Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
21 Gentoo Foundation

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