Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting proper USE_EXPAND variable(s) for multilib

[Michał Górny]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:27:30 -0300
Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:

> > To be honest, I don't know if there's other way to hide USE flags than
> > using USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN. If we want to use that, we'd have to split
> > the flags per-arch, i.e. have:
> >
> >   MULTILIB_AMD64="abi1 abi2 abi3"
> >   MULTILIB_PPC64="abi1 abi2 abi3"
> >
> > with appropriate USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN set by profiles.
>
> I don't like that at all.
> I'd go for ABI= the union of all the MULTILIB_ABIS variables (if there
> is no name collision)

Well, there is one :).

> we certainly want skype to depend on libitneeds[abi_x86], not 'amd64?
> ( libitneeds[abi_amd64_x86] ) x86? ( libitneeds )'

Yes, that seems reasonable.

On the other hand, mips will most likely want some prefix with names
like 'n32' and 'n64'.

Well, I think I'll have to ping the arch teams to see what kinds
of multilib they want.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny