On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 12:08 -0500, Brian D. Harring wrote: > > > > > Some of us think we can't start now, others think we can. I was under the > > > impression from ferringb that we could. > > > > > > > BDEPEND should be fine to start now depending on faith. > Not after having it rolled into the tree, _yet_. First email pretty > much stated I was just after seeing if it was tenuable beyond just the > portage crews views on it :) > > Basically, I was attempting to get feedback on issues where this > wouldn't be quiet enough, an example of which is ncurses. > (my understanding of this, thanks to flameeyes for clueing me in) > ncurses built/installed in chost==ctarget, BDEPEND= > ncurses built/installed in chost!=ctarget, BDEPEND=ncurses >
Well, I can see that it can help towards that end. > So... need to expose either ctarget as some type of flag for bdepend, > or use flag type hack (native when chost=ctarget, -native when > evaluating a use conditional in a domain where chost!=ctarget). > > Thoughts regarding it? I'd expect we'll have to expose ctarget info > in some way for use conditionals, but would like some feedback on what > else may be required. Well, currently you have to export CTARGET for crossdev, etc, so either keep that method, or add something to cvs portage to support cross-compiling ? Thanks, -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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