On Sunday 11 October 2009 06:21:14 Thomas Sachau wrote: > 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.
your git instructions are overly complicated (doc/portage-multilib- instructions). your two checkouts and .git/config edit are one command: git checkout -b portage-multilib origin/portage-multilib you really should line wrap that file too > 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. getting review + approval in a day or two is pretty unreasonable, especially when info as to what is being changed/proposed isnt well documented. -mike
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