Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 21 October 2009 07:34:18 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Tuesday 20 October 2009 09:06:29 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: As I'm building the toolchain myself too, I configure it with the 32bit host triplet on each platform,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 07:34:18 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 October 2009 09:06:29 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > >> As I'm building the toolchain myself too, I configure it with the > >> 32bit host triplet on each platform, usually disabling multilib

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-21 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 20 October 2009 09:06:29 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >> As I'm building the toolchain myself too, I configure it with the >> 32bit host triplet on each platform, usually disabling multilib. > > this doesnt make any sense to me What exactly doesn't make sense t

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 09:06:29 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > As I'm building the toolchain myself too, I configure it with the > 32bit host triplet on each platform, usually disabling multilib. this doesnt make any sense to me > This simply works for ppc-aix, hppa-hpux, ia64-hpux, sparc-sol

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Sachau
Michael Haubenwallner schrieb: > Isn't the intention of multilib to have a new (64bit) system > be compatible with the corresponding old (32bit) system? > > Please comment, thank you! > /haubi/ If you have a 64bit system, the default should be 64bit, both for libs and for binaries. The additiona

[gentoo-dev] RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
Hi devs, while there is the appreciated multiple ABI portage support going on, a thought on the intentions of the multilib profiles. Some background: I do have to support building an older, but still maintained large application software, that simply does not work when built as 64bit. As it does