On Wednesday 06 June 2007, Luca Barbato wrote:
> yesterday we discussed about cross development and why the gentoo
> support for it works just to a point (and then has something missing)
>
> There are already some convoluted ideas about multiabi/multilib support
> with patches being discussed and there are some handy scripts that let
> you cross emerge stuff to a point (it has to be an autotooled package or
> has to be cross aware, it shouldn't depend on running certain programs).

There are various problems that need to be addressed for cross development and 
(especially) multilib/abi. One of the other ones that you didn't mention is 
some kind of subpackage support. For example when one installs 32 bit gtk+ to 
use binary firefox on an 64bit system it can share the headers and docs etc. 
with the 64 bit version. Removing either of them must however still preserve 
those files.

Paul

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