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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Thomas Sachau <tommy@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> the abi-wrapper doesnt look terribly appealing. =C2=A0why dont we use br=
oken/custom
>> -config handling as incentive to convert packages to .pc files. =C2=A0pk=
g-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...


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