On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: >
I'm interested in this because I'm regularly annoyed with the emul- packages and also because multilib is pretty important for mips. > If a package has dependencies, then those dependencies are required to have > at least the same targets enabled as the package That seems like the obvious (but perhaps naive) choice. What about depending on packages that don't install libraries, like x11-proto/ packages or generators like dev-util/indent? Maybe I just don't understand. Would these packages even have ABI flags? It's clear to me that libraries would be installed in different lib* directories dependent on their ABI, but how would typical executables be handled? For mips, we'd like to have gcc built as an n64 binary, which would require its run-time dependencies (mpfr, mpc, gmp, etc.) to be available as n64 as well, but the rest of the system to be n32 binaries. Does this fit with your understanding (and proposed solution) of the problem? Thanks, Matt
