Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving real multilib support into main tree portage with request for council decision

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Sunday 11 October 2009 06:21:14 Thomas Sachau wrote:
> as announced in a previous mail, i created a fork of portage, which has
>  support to create 32bit libs during compile phase for 64bit platforms
>  (currently amd64 tested, ppc64 untested).
> 
> In short, it does execute every src_* phase twice with keeping a workdir
>  for every ABI and saving some default environment vars (like *FLAGS).
>  Since the current ABI is the last one in this order, the 64bit phase will
>  overwrite everthing from 32bit phase except those parts, which have a
>  different install location, so mostly libs, which go in lib32 instead of
>  lib64.
> 
> A current ebuild and docs for using it are currently in the
>  portage-multilib branch of the multilib overlay.

your git instructions are overly complicated (doc/portage-multilib-
instructions).  your two checkouts and .git/config edit are one command:
git checkout -b portage-multilib origin/portage-multilib

you really should line wrap that file too

> I asked zmedico about inclusion into the main svn tree of portage, but he
>  requested a council ok before he would be accepting it. So this is my
>  request for discussion and ok (in tomorrows or the following meeting) from
>  the council.

getting review + approval in a day or two is pretty unreasonable, especially 
when info as to what is being changed/proposed isnt well documented.
-mike

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