On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 12:21 +0100, Herbie Hopkins wrote: > 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.
Don't forget that this will require an update to (at least) eselect-opengl, too. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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