On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 21:46:02 -0300
Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:24:46 +0200
> Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > It is a simple eclass using autotools out-of-source builds to build
> > packages for multiple ABIs when multilib is supported.
> >
> 
> to some extent, can't you do the same by unpacking twice to different
> $S and calling src_prepare/compile/install instead of their
> autotools-utils counterpart with tweaked $S so that it works with
> almost every ebuild ?

That would make this solution inefficient. The good solutions should
not be made ugly to support corner cases.

> -- this really starts to resemble multilib portage :)

I've said already that multilib is a thing which could be done by
eclasses and doesn't need making PM scary. And Tommy says that
multilib-portage handles packages having IUSE=multilib fine.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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