On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:50:47 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 03:30 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:54:01 -0500 > > Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:26 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò > > > wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 20:19, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > > From my POV those vars should be set in the profiles instead, > > > > > and a quick scan shows that indeed most (maybe all? didn't > > > > > count them) profiles set them already, so there isn't really > > > > > a point in having them in make.conf too, except to make it > > > > > easy for users to change them > > > > Little note: with Gentoo/FreeBSD I tried avoiding providing > > > > CHOST in make.conf, as to change to non-i686 CHOST you need to > > > > rebuild everything, as the stage is currently i686-centric, I'm > > > > sorry of that, I'll try to automatize a more complete building > > > > when I'll have time. > > > > > > > > The problem of this is that distcc-config looks inside make.conf > > > > for CHOST instead of using portageq envvar CHOST, so it just > > > > breaks :P I think other things might do the same assumption of > > > > finding CHOST in make.conf, and beside being plainly wrong, I'm > > > > not sure if I want to break everything ;) > > > > > > CHOST doesn't have to match what is in the profile. In fact, I > > > can think of a lot of cases where it does not. While I agree > > > that it shouldn't be required to have CHOST in make.conf, it *is* > > > currently a requirement, and has been for as long as I can > > > remember. > > > > The portageq way would scan all make.* files, so you *could* still > > set CHOST in make.conf if you want to. > > I wasn't disputing that. I was only stating that currently, there are > things that *require* CHOST in make.conf that would need to be > adjusted. You have a list of (some of) these things? From a portage POV those things are broken, the only thing you can safely assume about make.conf is that it exists (and even that is debatable). Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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