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Thomas Sachau wrote: |
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> Hi together, |
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> as announced in a previous mail, i created a fork of portage, which has support to create 32bit libs |
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> during compile phase for 64bit platforms (currently amd64 tested, ppc64 untested). |
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> In short, it does execute every src_* phase twice with keeping a workdir for every ABI and saving |
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> some default environment vars (like *FLAGS). Since the current ABI is the last one in this order, |
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> the 64bit phase will overwrite everthing from 32bit phase except those parts, which have a different |
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> install location, so mostly libs, which go in lib32 instead of lib64. |
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> A current ebuild and docs for using it are currently in the portage-multilib branch of the multilib |
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> overlay. |
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> I asked zmedico about inclusion into the main svn tree of portage, but he requested a council ok |
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> before he would be accepting it. So this is my request for discussion and ok (in tomorrows or the |
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> following meeting) from the council. |
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An important thing to note is that there are necessary changes to |
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emul-* ebuilds that are technically an EAPI change, since they won't |
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work with old package managers that don't have support for lib32 USE |
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flags. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |