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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: vapier@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in  multilib overlay
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:56:45 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0910121326j313910b2kaf9f363589ce40ff@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD3885C.3090403@gentoo.org>

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> the abi-wrapper doesnt look terribly appealing.  why dont we use broken/custom
>> -config handling as incentive to convert packages to .pc files.  pkg-config
>> handles ABI/cross-compile splitting cleanly and transparently.
>
> I am totally unfamiliar with pkg-config, so that would take some time or a helping hand.
>

You can take a look at http://is.gd/4fSfN for an overview (google
cache of original since fdo downtime wiped home directories). I
completely agree with Mike that pkg-config makes all this much simpler
and consistent.

>> bash-4 is stable, so we could start depending on it.
>
> It still has 3 unstable KEYWORDS including mips.
>

~mips ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd

^^ None of these arches do stable keywords...


-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-16 12:37 [gentoo-dev] Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay Thomas Sachau
2009-08-16 16:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-16 20:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Paul de Vrieze
2009-10-11 21:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-12 19:49   ` Thomas Sachau
2009-10-12 20:26     ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2009-10-12 20:50     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-12 21:18       ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-10-18 18:49         ` Thomas Sachau
2009-10-19  2:26           ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-19  2:57             ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-10-19 21:02               ` Thomas Sachau
2009-10-19 21:40                 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-19 22:53                 ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-10-20  0:46                   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-18 18:46       ` Thomas Sachau
2009-10-19  7:08         ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-19 20:59           ` Thomas Sachau
2009-10-20 18:10             ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-22 15:04               ` Thomas Sachau
2009-10-22 15:26           ` Thomas Sachau
2009-10-26 12:03             ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-18  6:01 ` Denis Dupeyron

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