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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:55:19
Message-Id: 200607062050.03899.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags by Simon Stelling
1 On Thursday 06 July 2006 10:03, Simon Stelling wrote:
2 > c) This is not about "regaining" control. Currently, users who want to
3 > cross-compile are screwed and need nasty use.mask-hacks to not end up
4 > with broken binaries. The inability to provide per-package CFLAGS is a
5 > missing feature in portage, it's got nothing to do with this issue.
6
7 deficiency in portage that is being slowly resolved ... this is hardly
8 specific to cpu-based USE flags and deserves nothing short of a real fix on
9 the portage side
10
11 as for "broken binaries", i kind of doubt that statement ... when was the last
12 time you saw a cross-toolchain accept assembly code written for a different
13 architecture ? now if you had said broken builds, i would have agreed with
14 you slightly ... but again, refer to the "this is hardly specific to
15 cpu-based USE flags" statement from earlier
16 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>