Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Solved: ABI_X86=

[Mick]

On Monday 29 Feb 2016 23:07:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 29/02/2016 18:59, James wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >>>> ABI_X86="32 64"
> >>>
> >>> Well this just worked fine, but, I'm curious if this (ABI_X86="32 64")
> >>> setting in make.conf should be part of any selected profile for amd_64 ?
> >>
> >> It's not in any profiles, you have to set it manually. Doing it globally
> >> like you did compiles 32 and 64 bit versions of everything, that will
> >> make most gentooers whinge mightily
> >
> > Is there a provision (mechanism) to have this autoset, if a package
> > dependency call for it? The system was fine for a quite a while until I
> > forced it to only install 64 bit libs. What's the proper (auto) fix, as I
> > do not remember having to have all of these 32 bit libs before, only a
> > few?
>
> There isn't an auto-fix to my knowledge, other than setting the flag
> globally in make.conf. At heart ABI_X86 is a USE flag and follows all
> the rules of USE flags - you set them globally or per-package.
>
> Do you have an automagic method to enable mysql support for postfix in
> one step that will set all needed USE? Mo? Well, there isn't one for
> ABX_X86 either. You set the flag on for the 32 bit apps you have, and
> follow the chain of incompatible USE all the way to the end. It's a
> major pain in the butt.

As Alan explained the setting of ABI_X86 globally will force *all* of your 
packages to build 32bit binaries.  IMHO, an awful waste of electrons.

Why don't you just set ABI_X86 only for the packages that request it, in 
package.use?

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Regards,
Mick