Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423)

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:03:50 +0300
Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 13.08.2012 19:55, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> [ ... ]
> 
> I should mention that we have discussed this already,
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364375
> 
> Which was a result of long gentoo-dev ML thread, unfortunately my
> search foo failed and I couldn't find straight link to it
> 
> Why should we threat /usr than / any different in this regard, there
> was large consensus /lib/udev should be used instead of /lib64/udev
> and udev.pc's udevdir= is the path for "udev helpers", ELFs(!), and
> rules among other things
> 
> It's completely fair to say that multilib-strict feature has been
> broken ever since, years.

well, i dont agree its fair :P
it breaks on _pie_ executables, which are not that common if you dont
run hardened.

what is broken, and has been broken since years is multilib-strict +
pie toolchain; a flaw in the multilib-strict detection system that gets
confused by 'file' output on pie executables :)

A.