From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EcD8X-00009T-Ni for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:35:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAG2XkWW009668; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:33:46 GMT Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAG2UaDR014390 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:30:36 GMT Received: from [82.83.39.149] (helo=sven.genone.homeip.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML21M-1EcD4G0c8g-000203; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:30:36 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:30:16 +0100 From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why arch-specific make.conf files? Message-ID: <20051116033016.407f0889@sven.genone.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <1132084441.9703.45.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> References: <20051115201919.11d52815@sven.genone.homeip.net> <200511152026.35987@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1132084441.9703.45.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_d4SDlMeV5MYezuf.kmkNS3e; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:7e6c91d1b14dbccceb2f2166522fa0f6 X-Archives-Salt: f18f59ee-8a69-4a33-a40e-b4f94df9b688 X-Archives-Hash: 75e1b9e69ab95cc001ae5513718072c2 --Sig_d4SDlMeV5MYezuf.kmkNS3e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:54:01 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 20:26 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 November 2005 20:19, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > From my POV those vars should be set in the profiles instead, and > > > a quick scan shows that indeed most (maybe all? didn't count them) > > > profiles set them already, so there isn't really a point in > > > having them in make.conf too, except to make it easy for users to > > > change them > > Little note: with Gentoo/FreeBSD I tried avoiding providing CHOST > > in make.conf, as to change to non-i686 CHOST you need to rebuild > > everything, as the stage is currently i686-centric, I'm sorry of > > that, I'll try to automatize a more complete building when I'll > > have time. > >=20 > > The problem of this is that distcc-config looks inside make.conf > > for CHOST instead of using portageq envvar CHOST, so it just > > breaks :P I think other things might do the same assumption of > > finding CHOST in make.conf, and beside being plainly wrong, I'm not > > sure if I want to break everything ;) >=20 > CHOST doesn't have to match what is in the profile. In fact, I can > think of a lot of cases where it does not. While I agree that it > shouldn't be required to have CHOST in make.conf, it *is* currently a > requirement, and has been for as long as I can remember. The portageq way would scan all make.* files, so you *could* still set CHOST in make.conf if you want to. Marius --=20 Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. --Sig_d4SDlMeV5MYezuf.kmkNS3e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDepm7WzrL1pM7SNcRAn8JAJ0cuSKScf4zJy1zbtJKHRvdMyOWjQCdExJj VrefLk95001v1vMAqd7HnQc= =XBbS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_d4SDlMeV5MYezuf.kmkNS3e-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list