Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: crossdev and multilib interference

[Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 11:20 -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> On 06/17/2014 10:56, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 10:17 -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> >> What I'd like to see is a list of all affected packages so we all can get a
> >> sense of just how big the actual problem really is.  All I am hearing so far
> >> are unsubstantiated claims of tree-wide breakage.  Knowing which packages
> >> are broken allows other devs to look at things and maybe come to agreement
> >> that crossdev is the source of the problem or perhaps another solution that
> >> applies to all of them can be worked up.
> > 
> > All multilib packages that use pkgconfig, for one thing. (Which means almost
> > all multilib packages.) Because current crossdev versions blindly install their
> > /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config wrapper script, overwriting the binary
> > belonging to pkgconfig[abi_x86_32].
> 
> But how many packages is that?  Is there a way to filter and count the
> packages in the tree that are both multilib-capable and rely on pkgconfig?
> This still doesn't convey the scale of the perceived problem, and this is
> why people are not really convinced that a problem exists and that crossdev
> is the source of the problem.

$ eix --depend -z virtual/pkgconfig -a --use -z abi_x86_32 -a --use -z abi_x86_64 --only-names | wc -l
285

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