On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 17:50 -0600, MIkey wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> 
> > You're reading it wrong.  The bootstrap USE flag is set during
> > bootstrap, not the build USE flag.  This means libstdc++-v3 (or gcc 3.3)
> > is required at the bootstrap level.  The reason that libstdc++-v3
> 
> My mistake, it is just portage that gets that build flag during
> bootstrapping.  Just out of curiosity, what does utilize the "build" flag,
> other than portage during bootstrapping?

It is used in building the stage1 tarball itself.  All of the packages
that have the build USE flag have it because it reduces functionality in
the package to just what is needed for bootstrap to complete for the
stage1 tarball.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux