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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GF7uR-0002yK-Ob for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:25:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7LBOj10002661; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:24:45 GMT Received: from blaster.systems.pipex.net (blaster.systems.pipex.net [62.241.163.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7LBLlCl024905 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:21:47 GMT Received: from trantor.devurandom.co.uk (81-179-53-84.dsl.pipex.com [81.179.53.84]) by blaster.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7F5E000492 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:21:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from herbie by trantor.devurandom.co.uk with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GF7qk-0002gZ-Cd for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:21:46 +0100 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:21:46 +0100 From: Herbie Hopkins To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mulltiib cruft: /emul Message-ID: <20060821112146.GA9859@trantor.devurandom.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200608081143.13375.vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608081143.13375.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 47d4d361-af43-4621-9665-994bd761ed92 X-Archives-Hash: c93e43570392100972f0d498973e2e19 On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:43:13AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > someone remind me why our emul packages install in some obscure directory tree > rooted in /emul > > if we moved these things to the standard lib32 dirs, it would certainly ease > the pain of people doing multilib building, both in and out of portage Mike, Sorry I missed you on irc yesterday, didn't get back til later than expected. I'm not sure why /emul was originally chosen though it's a choice I've just gone along with whilst maintaining these packages. I've always viewed the emul libs as a temporary measure until we had full multilib fuctionality in portage. Afaik the only person working on this was eradicator who has been mia for a while now so I'm unsure weather this is ever likely to arise. Given that it looks like we'll be stuck with these binary libs for some time yet then we may as well do as you suggest and install them in a standard location to make building against them a bit easier. I'll look into doing this when I next version bump the packages. Herbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list