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On 09/08/13 12:09 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 11:48:07 Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org>
> napisał(a):
> 
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>> On 09/08/13 11:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> Dnia 2013-08-09, o godz. 17:32:56 Thomas Sachau
>>> <to...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>>> 
>>>> As the topic says, when someone converts an ebuild to
>>>> multilib, please dont disable binary building for other ABIs,
>>>> as has already been done for some packages.
>>>> 
>>>> This will break e.g. for users who target 64bit toolchain
>>>> and 32bit userland, since those would not get any binaries
>>>> from building for none-default ABIs.
>>> 
>>> Then it is a bug that needs to be reported and fixed properly.
>>> And you should report it properly, to the proper people rather
>>> than stating authoritatively that a silly work-around is a
>>> proper solution.
>>> 
> 
>> I don't think there was anything authoritative about Tommy's
>> post? 'Please' is generally a request, isn't it?
> 
> It is a request given by a person not involved with the multilib
> work and a request that is exactly the opposite of what we're
> doing and recommending so far. Plus it's against QA.
> 
>> I asked Tommy to post this, because I had the impression that
>> this method (only building libs for non-native_abi) is the
>> perfectly acceptable and proper way to move forward with
>> multilib-build.eclass conversion -- and I figured other dev's
>> might too, as more and more get involved with converting their
>> lib-providing ebuilds to multilib-build et. al..
> 
> And it is the best method. We're not going to regress into 
> multilib-portage.
> 
> 

...so, allowing for the ability of 32bit userland with 64bit toolchain
(via, say, setting ABI_X86=32 in make.conf) using the eclasses is just
outright not ever going to happen?  Never mind not supporting it, but
essentially not allowing it?


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