On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:43:13AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > someone remind me why our emul packages install in some obscure directory > tree > rooted in /emul > > if we moved these things to the standard lib32 dirs, it would certainly ease > the pain of people doing multilib building, both in and out of portage
Mike, Sorry I missed you on irc yesterday, didn't get back til later than expected. I'm not sure why /emul was originally chosen though it's a choice I've just gone along with whilst maintaining these packages. I've always viewed the emul libs as a temporary measure until we had full multilib fuctionality in portage. Afaik the only person working on this was eradicator who has been mia for a while now so I'm unsure weather this is ever likely to arise. Given that it looks like we'll be stuck with these binary libs for some time yet then we may as well do as you suggest and install them in a standard location to make building against them a bit easier. I'll look into doing this when I next version bump the packages. Herbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
