Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: {bi,multi}arch support for all x86/amd64/ppc/sparc systems

2011-12-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 07 December 2011 21:12:37 Duncan wrote: > 1) Will this allow building grub from amd64/no-multilib, thus avoiding > having to have grub-static? That's the one thing I don't like about no- > multilib, having to use the pre-built grub-static. grub needs a C library to link `grub`. at t

[gentoo-dev] Re: {bi,multi}arch support for all x86/amd64/ppc/sparc systems

2011-12-07 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 02:12:37 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > 2) What about grub-2, and while we're on it, is a switch to that expected > any time soon, and/or is there a grub-static-2 in the wings? With the > grub-1 gpt patches (and hopefully btrfs support at some point) I'm n

[gentoo-dev] Re: {bi,multi}arch support for all x86/amd64/ppc/sparc systems

2011-12-07 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger posted on Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:15:47 -0500 as excerpted: > the advantage is that it should obsolete the separate kgcc64 package for > most people. and i think it might help out with the multilib bootstrap > issue: you can't build multilib gcc without a multilib glibc, and can't > bu