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On Wednesday 06 June 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> yesterday we discussed about cross development and why the gentoo |
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> support for it works just to a point (and then has something missing) |
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> There are already some convoluted ideas about multiabi/multilib support |
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> with patches being discussed and there are some handy scripts that let |
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> you cross emerge stuff to a point (it has to be an autotooled package or |
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> has to be cross aware, it shouldn't depend on running certain programs). |
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There are various problems that need to be addressed for cross development and |
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(especially) multilib/abi. One of the other ones that you didn't mention is |
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some kind of subpackage support. For example when one installs 32 bit gtk+ to |
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use binary firefox on an 64bit system it can share the headers and docs etc. |
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with the 64 bit version. Removing either of them must however still preserve |
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those files. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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