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Well, |
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MIPS will be using that a lot to deal with 032/n32/n64 mess. |
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I'm currently working on that. |
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Ilya. |
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Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> Hi @ll |
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> Mea culpa ! I added "multilib" as a useflag to the portage ebuild |
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> without recognizing that it was yet only a local useflag (in gcc). |
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> Mr_Bones_ and ciaranm were so kind to point me to it and convinced me |
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> to tell you all, thx guys ;-). Here we go: |
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> So what's multilib ? At the moment it's an amd64 only global useflag, |
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> but probably other 64bit archs which can execute and compile 32bit |
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> binary will consider it usable too. |
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> "+multilib" allows gcc to build x86 binarys on amd64 and makes portage |
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> build a 32bit libsandbox.so. This 32bit sandbox [1] is necessary to |
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> install some precompiled applications on amd64. (Example: |
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> Openoffice-bin [2]) |
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> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32963 |
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> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33360 |
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