On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:32:04 +0200
Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Alexis Ballier schrieb:
> > On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:32:56 +0200
> > Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> 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.
> >>
> > 
> > - submit a patch against multilib_is_native_abi for those corner
> > cases
> 
> huh? Please tell me, how a changed multilib_is_native_abi function
> would help here. Either you restrict something to native abi or you
> dont, having a check telling you "true - we are either native abi or
> not" is not really usefull, is it?
> 

native abi = the abi you want the binaries for and the one you always
build your libs with...


[...]
> > 
> > no, we won't be building useless stuff to throw it away one
> > minute later, thanks for the bloat.
> 
> We already do it in many cases, just take complete package rebuilds
> due to USE flag changes.

Feel free to propose improvements to this, but it is unrelated I'm
afraid.

Let's emerge -e world after each sync just because we can :)

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