Hello, developers. A quick sit: right now toolchain.eclass is a big blocker for multilib that doesn't seem to want to fix itself. Considering the complexity of the eclass, the amount of automagic dependencies and the size of resulting patches ([1] for a start but it lacks EAPI conditionals), I'm thinking: wouldn't it be better to just remove awt support completely?
Rationale: gcj doesn't seem to have any future, and has exactly two reverse dependencies in Gentoo. However, only one of them -- gcj-jdk -- requires awt support. gcj-jdk can be supposedly used as a JDK for old versions of Java, and supposedly can be used to bootstrap icedtea. However, it never made it to stable and lags behind gcc. I've opened a bug requesting lastriting it [2]. If we masked gcj-jdk and USE=awt on gcc, we could successfully continue working on multilib without having to increase toolchain.eclass by a few hundred lines. That would probably also be the first step towards removing gcj, which could become possible once mcpdf is introduced to replace pdftk [3]. What do you think? I've applied the masks listed here in non-emul-linux-x86 subprofiles if you'd like to test them (not that there's anything to test). [1]:https://511832.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=389818 [2]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531900 [3]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531898 -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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