[gentoo-amd64] Re: qt3

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

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<sheridan@stavcom.ru> posted 200701060330.11384.sheridan@stavcom.ru,
excerpted below, on  Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:30:11 +0300:

> Why qt3 build with linux-g++ , hot with linux-g++-64?

I'm not the Qt maintainer, so this is simply a guess, but without
investigating to deeply, probably because portage isn't setup to handle
full dual-arch, that is, with a few toolchain exceptions (glibc, gcc,
binutils, portage's sandbox) it handles 64-bit only, on amd64.  If you
want 32-bit, you either emerge the precompiled 32-bit binaries, or use a
32-bit chroot, thus keeping the 32-bit portage database separate from the
main system (64-bit) portage database.  Since portage doesn't have to
worry about keeping the two separate, the Qt build can use the generic
linux-g++, instead of having to track 64-bit separately from 32-bit as it
would if they were built and delivered together in the same package.

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