On 2018-02-16 11:14, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> ABI is a profile variable. On an amd64 system it is defined in
> profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults.
>
> The ABI variable is used by functions in multilib.eclass,
> toolchain-funcs.eclass, and the econf function to determine the
> correct libdir (lib, lib32, lib64, etc).
>
> For an autotools build, you will probably want to call the econf
> function, so unsetting ABI is a bad idea. Instead, you probably want
> to "unexport" it (export -n). This will allow econf to see it, but the
> value will not be inherited by configure.
>
> src_configure() {
> export -n ABI
> econf
> }
Thanks for this thorough and relevant answer.
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