From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxRTj-0002B6-OL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:26:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF0B3E0917; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645E2E0917 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi12 with SMTP id 12so8810420pxi.9 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:26:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7ycyJ1as+hB+SlEwpiRY3PqIMlUXH1/8QnHGNjX+jpE=; b=Fi2tnQr0W7VpkPl9zBtOxmRBh0BY91w8RnxRo+nwVO5lTMLTaMzHLaPfCbpawAz7fy ZpW7HgjHZihMwsqbjVSxClxyUCMSSpBAKtMINMUZyFrjF5QLAYzEnei9HhXRYAD8gTal Xs30VeDLsicPrB8iRB9qnY1xmaDlT1rtr44Yg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=taulORHYL5zyaQj7c3+kYNy+P+7JBM3GL+1J6gpytfsungXdLUYI+Geo+miAC9JQEz mWB7EPQfs67OOM44tZGjeu/xZoDmcUjWv3d6Z6N5tz+sHW0RpholrkHxfQdsZPBODVh7 MGlza2if5nSIq32obFbYxbMziFdgYnwrbseuU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.115.135.23 with SMTP id m23mr10713755wan.136.1255379205662; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:26:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AD3885C.3090403@gentoo.org> References: <4A87FD91.20406@gentoo.org> <200910111716.22190.vapier@gentoo.org> <4AD3885C.3090403@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:56:45 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 376e9518ad45b1db Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0910121326j313910b2kaf9f363589ce40ff@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay From: Nirbheek Chauhan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: vapier@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 908f563c-ab75-4e1e-a78b-54c239cc1e35 X-Archives-Hash: 424dd431874fd0cf836d2d306f142f89 On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Thomas Sachau 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... --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan GNOME+Mozilla Team, Gentoo