Thomas Sachau wrote: > Hi together, > > as announced in a previous mail, i created a fork of portage, which has > support to create 32bit libs > during compile phase for 64bit platforms (currently amd64 tested, ppc64 > untested). > > In short, it does execute every src_* phase twice with keeping a workdir for > every ABI and saving > some default environment vars (like *FLAGS). Since the current ABI is the > last one in this order, > the 64bit phase will overwrite everthing from 32bit phase except those parts, > which have a different > install location, so mostly libs, which go in lib32 instead of lib64. > > A current ebuild and docs for using it are currently in the portage-multilib > branch of the multilib > overlay. > > I asked zmedico about inclusion into the main svn tree of portage, but he > requested a council ok > before he would be accepting it. So this is my request for discussion and ok > (in tomorrows or the > following meeting) from the council.
An important thing to note is that there are necessary changes to emul-* ebuilds that are technically an EAPI change, since they won't work with old package managers that don't have support for lib32 USE flags. -- Thanks, Zac
