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On 23 September 2012 18:40, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:33:58 +0200 |
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> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> |
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>> El dom, 23-09-2012 a las 11:56 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: |
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>> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:07:30 +0200 |
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>> > Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > |
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>> > > Matt Turner schrieb: |
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>> > > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > > >> It is a simple eclass using autotools out-of-source builds to build |
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>> > > >> packages for multiple ABIs when multilib is supported. |
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>> > > > |
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>> > > > Thanks a lot, Michał! This looks good to me. |
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>> > > > |
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>> > > >> Use case: xorg packages, ask Matt. |
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>> > > > |
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>> > > > So the idea is that users want up-to-date 32-bit drivers for games and |
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>> > > > WINE. The emul- packages aren't a very good solution for a number of |
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>> > > > reasons. |
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>> > > > |
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>> > > > I'd like to add multilib USE flags to Mesa and thus its dependencies. |
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>> > > > I realized that almost everything in x11-libs/ could be converted very |
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>> > > > easily, which would allow us to get rid of emul-linux-x86-xlibs in |
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>> > > > addition to emul-linux-x86-opengl. |
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>> > > > |
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>> > > > |
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>> > > |
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>> > > This looks like a shortened duplication of a subset of multilib-portage |
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>> > > features. While this wont hurt multilib-portage (since it does exclude |
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>> > > most actions on ebuilds with USE=multilib), it will mean a rewrite for |
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>> > > many ebuilds, which then again need another rewrite (or more likely |
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>> > > revert), when multilib-portage is accepted in a future EAPI. |
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>> > |
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>> > s/when/if/ |
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>> > |
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>> > > So i would prefer some help/support with multilib-portage to get it |
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>> > > accepted sooner, instead of this additional workaround for a subset of |
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>> > > packages. |
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>> > |
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>> > I prefer the simpler solution. |
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>> > |
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>> > > P.S.: I know, that users, who want up-to-date 32bit drivers for games |
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>> > > and wine do use multilib-portage, so we already have a working solution |
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>> > > for this issue. |
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>> > |
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>> > They will no longer have to do that. |
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>> > |
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>> |
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>> I would prefer if eclass way could be extended to packages not using |
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>> autotools too, otherwise, we will still need emul packages for, for |
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>> example, qt libs. If that would be possible via eclass, maybe |
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>> multilib-portage wouldn't be needed but, if not, we will still need it |
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>> and, then, would be nice if this inclussion for autotools packages |
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>> wouldn't cause more problems to get the "strong" solution land in the |
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>> "near" future :/ |
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>> |
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>> The simpler solution (eclass) looks fine to me, but it would need to be |
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>> extended to more packages than autotools based ones to let it replace |
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>> portage-multilib/emul packages |
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> Qt uses cmake, doesn't it? |
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No, it uses qmake, its own make tool. See qt4-build and qt4-r2 eclasses. |
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KDE and a number of other reverse dependencies of the Qt libs do use cmake. |
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> I don't mind having cmake-multilib as well? We could probably move |
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> the foreach_abi() function to some more common eclass, like multilib |
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> eclass. |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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