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Looks like due to google remapping email headers and some changes in gentoo |
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infra my reply did not get to the list. So, here it goes again, now avoiding |
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gmail :). |
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BTW, there were a few posts on this topic in the linked thread on Donnie's |
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blog since my last post attempt. |
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On Sunday 05 December 2010 13:55:40 Kacper Kowalik wrote: |
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> Again, for the reference and starting point for the discussion |
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> Donnie's blog post: |
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> http://bit.ly/dLwdFe |
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Very interesting - that this point started coming up in multiple places |
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lately. I guess "the time has come" finally. |
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My interest/"involvement" here is that Ada has been implementing such a system |
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for many years now (perhaps the first such miltiABI class in the tree), |
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therefore, if there some technical issues that can be referenced: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/prog_lang/ada/dev_reference.xml |
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(unfortunately incomplete, but I should have put principal points there before |
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"dropping it") and discussed. |
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The implementattion is somewhat along the lines of "2." point in thatDonnie's |
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post. In fact, 2 and 3 follow the same principle, the difference is only where |
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the multi-build control code resides - in the ebuild or external script. The |
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Ada implementation places it in the "standard" locations: an eclass for |
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building compilers, an eclass for taking care of libs and eselect module "to |
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rule them all". There is even an option of selecting "primary" profiles - the |
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ones for which libs will be built, and having "experimental" - just for play |
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compilers. Therefore I would suggest to interested people to look at the |
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code/contact me, etc.. I think we can all benefit from discussing this topic. |
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Overal though, I would very much like to push for the standard "in portage" |
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treatment of multiple ABIs - at leas for PM providing some necessary |
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"core"functionality. However this is still not out of the design phase, as I |
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understand.. |
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George |