Duncan schrieb: > Thomas Sachau posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:31:40 +0200 as excerpted: > >> Since i am not that sure about my ability to write formal specs, i am >> presenting my first draft for further review and suggestions for >> improvement. > > Just a format suggestion. Call it nitpicky if you want, and yes, my > client isn't perfect, but I'm sure people with a bit of experience > writing such specs will tell you I'm not alone... > > Several of your points ended up as very long single lines. My client can > wrap, but that wraps the points as well (so for example 2.1 starts in the > middle of a line). So I was left with the choice to either massively > horizontally scroll, or of trying to figure out where one point ended and > another began, since wrapping it... /wrapped/ it, so points appeared in > the middle of a line. > > Please: > > * If you use long lines, leave a vertical space (blank line) between > points so when a client wraps them, they wrap as individual paragraphs. > > * Alternatively, wrap at something sensible. (The traditional wrap for > posting is 72 chars or so, 80 minus a few to allow a few levels of > quoting without rewrap. I wouldn't complain at 90, but if you're going > to bother, you might as well go the standard route and avoid further > issues.) > > Long lines as paragraphs would probably be easier especially early in the > process when you're modifying a lot, but you still risk (even more) > limited clients having issues with it. YMMV. >
I suggest you look for a better client to handle the line wrapping better. ;-) In the meantime, the same file attached with wrapped lines. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
For amd64 users, there is sometimes the issue, that they need 32bit libs for certain packages (e.g. wine or many binary-only packages). Currently, they only get them prepackaged in binary form with the emul-linux-x86-* packages. But those packages have a few issues (list does not have to be complete): -they only contain a limited set of 32bit packages -they are precompiled, so the user cannot define his own flags -they have to be manually maintained and updated So the idea was to add the ability to compile 32bit packages with support from the package manager, so there is no need for additional packages to maintain. After this was originally implemented, it was further extended to allow cross-compilation for other targets, not only limited to 32bit packages. The basic way, how this should work: 1. Check for the current profile being multilib, this means, that the MULTILIB_ABIS var exists and has more then 1 (space seperated) value. Additionally, the DEFAULT_ABI var has to be defined and its content should be part of the MULTILIB_ABIS var. Only continue with the following steps, if this is true 2.1 Take the entries from MULTILIB_ABIS var and add a USE flag for each of them in the form of multilib_abi_$value 2.2 Add "abiwrapper" as a USE flag 3. Check, if the package has USE=multilib enabled. Only continue with the following steps, if this is false. 4. Add a use dependency for each USE flag added in step 2 for all dependencies except those defined in a space seperated list of the NO_AUTO_FLAG var. The dependency should then look like category/package[multilib_abi_$value?] 5. Find the first enabled USE flag from the list of step 2, start with multilib_abi_$DEFAULT_ABI during the search. If none is enabled, use multilib_abi_$DEFAULT_ABI. In the following, $ABI will reference the $value part of the selected USE flag. 6. Before the pkg_setup phase is executed, setup the environment as following: -export CHOST with $CHOST_$DEFAULT_ABI -export $CC with $CHOST-gcc -export $CXX with $CHOST-g++ -export $FC with $CHOST-gfortran -export $CHOST with $CHOST_$ABI -export $CBUILD with $CHOST_$ABI -export $CDEFINE with $CDEFINE_$ABI -export $CCASFLAGS with ${CCASFLAGS:-${CFLAGS}} and append $CFLAGS_$ABI -export $CFLAGS with $CFLAGS and append $CFLAGS_$ABI -export $CPPFLAGS with $CPPFLAGS and append $CPPFLAGS_$ABI -export $CXXFLAGS with $CXXFLAGS and append $CFLAGS_$ABI -export $FCFLAGS with $FCFLAGS and append $CFLAGS_$ABI -export $FFLAGS with $FFLAGS and append $CFLAGS_$ABI -export $ASFLAGS with $ASFLAGS and append $ASFLAGS_$ABI -export $LDFLAGS with $LDFLAGS and append $CFLAGS_$ABI -export $PKG_CONFIG_PATH with /usr/$LIBDIR_$ABI/pkgconfig 7. After src_install is finished: 7.1 Execute the following or equivalent code (prep_ml_binaries is a function from multilib-portage from [1]): prep_ml_binaries $(find "${D}"usr/bin "${D}"usr/sbin "${D}"bin "${D}"sbin -type f -name '*-config' 2>/dev/null) 7.2 If USE flag abiwrapper is enabled, execute: local noabi=() for i in ${MULTILIB_ABIS}; do noabi+=( ! -name '*-'${i} ) done if use abiwrapper ; then for i in $(find "${D}"usr/bin/ "${D}"usr/sbin "${D}"bin "${D}"sbin -type f ${noabi[@]} 2>/dev/null); do prep_ml_binaries "${i}" done fi 7.3. After src_install, do the following checks: -is $Dusr/include not empty -is $usr/$LIBDIR_$ABI not empty -is abiwrapper USE flag enabled and any of /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin not empty If any of those checks is true, save the content of $D to $D.$ABI. Check if another USE flag from step 2 is enabled, if no, then continue with step 8, otherwise reset everything to the state before pkg_setup. Find the next enabled USE flag from step 5 and continue with that on step 6. 8. If there have been at least 2 USE flags from step 2 enabled, check if the header files between the different target $ABIs differ. Move the files, that dont differ, back to $D. If files differ, they are moved to $Dusr/include/gentoo-multilib/$ABI and the following or equivalent code is executed in $D ($ALL_ABIS is the content of $MULTILIB_ABIS, for which the USE flags from step 2 have been enabled) (_create_abi_includes is a function from multilib-portage from [1]): set -- for diffabi in ${ALL_ABIS}; do local define_var=CDEFINE_${diffabi} set -- "$@" "${!define_var}:${dir}/gentoo-multilib/${diffabi}" done _create_abi_includes "$@" Now move the rest of the content of the temporary dirs back into $D with the content of $D.$DEFAULT_ABI being the last. 9. pkg_preinst, pkg_postinst, pkg_prerm and pkg_postrm are executed within a loop of the following form for each enabled USE flag from step 2 do setup environment as described in step 6 execute phase done [1]: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=blob;f=bin/auto-multilib.sh;hb=refs/heads/multilib Optional: The code from step 6, 7.1, 7.2 and 8 (for managing the headers) could be moved into an eclass. Then the PM executes this or an equivalent internal function with newer versions of that eclass overwrite the internal functions. That way, those parts could be updated without the need to update change the PMS or to wait for another EAPI for an update/change.
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