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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:46:20 +0200 |
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Francesco R <vivo@g.o> wrote: |
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> Never said this, I've a dual opteron running informix that can *only* |
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> run under a x86 environment. |
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> this is the profile for the main environment: |
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> make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0 |
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> and this one for the chroot: |
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> /chroot/ifx/etc/make.profile -> |
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> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.0/ |
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> They are covered from completely different keywords and profiles. |
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So it runs fine on amd64, but only with the 32-bit ABI. |
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> With your experience what are the pro and cons of merging different |
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> archs ? |
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Fewer different keywords to manage makes for easier maintenance in most |
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cases. If mips had 6 different keywords for different ABIs/endianness |
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we'd never get anything done. |
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