Hi together, as announced in a previous mail, i created a fork of portage, which has support to create 32bit libs during compile phase for 64bit platforms (currently amd64 tested, ppc64 untested).
In short, it does execute every src_* phase twice with keeping a workdir for every ABI and saving some default environment vars (like *FLAGS). Since the current ABI is the last one in this order, the 64bit phase will overwrite everthing from 32bit phase except those parts, which have a different install location, so mostly libs, which go in lib32 instead of lib64. A current ebuild and docs for using it are currently in the portage-multilib branch of the multilib overlay. I asked zmedico about inclusion into the main svn tree of portage, but he requested a council ok before he would be accepting it. So this is my request for discussion and ok (in tomorrows or the following meeting) from the council. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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