yesterday we discussed about cross development and why the gentoo support for it works just to a point (and then has something missing)
There are already some convoluted ideas about multiabi/multilib support with patches being discussed and there are some handy scripts that let you cross emerge stuff to a point (it has to be an autotooled package or has to be cross aware, it shouldn't depend on running certain programs). the first way aims at integrate the multiabi concept in a quite tight way, the other just makes portage consider it a completely separated beast and just ignore the rest. The nicer way should be just have another dep list that shows which rdeps should REALLY be run in order to get the package built and which are just deps needed to run the package itself. the simple/dumb way to treat this list is something like: you walk the cross dep list, for each atom in the dep with a run to build dep prepare a list to feed to the host configured package manager and build it first, then move to the cross dep list and threat it as it is a completely separated instance. Sounds too simple to be complete but I think for simple stuff like doc creation and cvs/svn/git/hg.. dep for live ebuilds should work pretty fine. PMS overlords what's your take? lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
