Re: [gentoo-dev] Porting gentoo to the Alpha

[derosa <derosa@optonline.net>]

One thing I was thinking, was a USE flag for any non-intel architechture, so
if your trying to build lilo or grub from an alpha it won't work, and if you
try to build milo from an i86 that won't work either.

Just an idea.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:17:17PM -0400, derosa wrote:
>I have recently set up an alpha machine running rh 7.1. I would like to
port
>gentoo to the alpha chipset.
>My questions:
>Are there any parts of the portage tree that are binary ?
>Would it make more sense to start from rc6 build or rc5 build ?
>

Heh, this is open source in action. Someone installs something they like,
it doesn't work on a platform they want to use it on so they decide to do
a port! I love it! Thanks to you and Atma we may end up with alpha and
x86 ports.

Thank you for the contributions.

drobbins, is there anything we'd need to do to the packages in the
portage tree to make them "portable" among archs? I'd think that once
glibc and gcc are setup everything would just sorta fall into place from
CFLAGS="" etc.