Robert Cernansky wrote:
Can anybody explain more? What are the pros and cons to switch it on/off?
The USE flag is only effective on ppc64 and sparc where the kernel sometimes is the only code that is compiled 64bit and therefore a seperate, much smaller version of gcc is used to build the kernel. The flag should in fact be masked everywhere except for those profiles, which is what bug 144535 [1] deals with.
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144535 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- [email protected] mailing list
