On Wednesday 07 December 2011 21:12:37 Duncan wrote:
> 1) Will this allow building grub from amd64/no-multilib, thus avoiding
> having to have grub-static?  That's the one thing I don't like about no-
> multilib, having to use the pre-built grub-static.

grub needs a C library to link `grub`.  at that point, you have multilib.  
that's the only difference between the two profiles: one has a multilib 
glibc/gcc and one does not.

> 3) One thing I very much like about no-multilib is the shorter gcc (and
> glibc) builds.  This will kill that (for gcc), right?

no.  please re-read what i said: this is not multilib.
-mike