From: "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] real multilib support
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:07:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070322230742.2fedab84@c1358217.kevquinn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4602A2D0.80603@runbox.com>
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:37:52 +0000
Simon Cooper <thecoop@runbox.com> wrote:
> Whats the status of real, proper, compiled multilib support? Is it
> 'being worked on'?
You might be interested in:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~kanaka/auto-multilib/
which doesn't need ABI dependencies - ABI dependencies and
associated tracking could turn out to be a bit of a nightmare in
practice. Kanaka explains some of the reasons why.
> Whats the main things holding it back at the moment?
My guess would be that there's no desperate need for it. The existing
workarounds; i.e. chroots, emul packages etc work well enough for the
amd64/x86 pair anyway.
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Kevin F. Quinn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-22 15:37 [gentoo-amd64] real multilib support Simon Cooper
2007-03-22 18:02 ` Olivier Crête
2007-03-27 5:32 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-03-27 9:08 ` Thomas Rösner
2007-03-27 12:53 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2007-03-28 2:04 ` Duncan
2007-03-28 21:24 ` Thomas Rösner
2007-03-28 22:14 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2007-03-28 23:49 ` Duncan
2007-03-22 19:35 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Thomas Rösner
2007-03-22 21:30 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-03-22 22:07 ` Kevin F. Quinn [this message]
2007-03-27 9:05 ` Thomas Rösner
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