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 1N0FZk-0004OP-GN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04BD6E06FE; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF884E06FE for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605AF67DE6 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.171 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.171 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.572, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4edn2e-EE6XG for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B0D66D6D for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N0FZV-00007A-M8 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:20:21 +0200 Received: from athedsl-379021.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.32.139]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:20:21 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-379021.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:20:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:19:56 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4ADDB5D5.30502@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-379021.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091019 Thunderbird/3.0b4 In-Reply-To: <4ADDB5D5.30502@gentoo.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8b91a451-ff3a-4717-b2d4-977590d70ad6 X-Archives-Hash: 7ae3da38ec5d313acd3b03c80f9eba40 On 10/20/2009 04:06 PM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > > Isn't the intention of multilib to have a new (64bit) system > be compatible with the corresponding old (32bit) system? I'm not sure I understand the whole procedure you use to build this app. Why not simply use -m32 when building it? Why build a whole toolchain? Anyway, as for the question of multilib's intention, yes, it's to have a 64-bit and 32-bit userland at the same time. But it doesn't work fully on Gentoo, which is why the effort for real multilib support has started in the first place.