Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 06 October 2012 21:05:14 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > It's also interesting to note that > Werner Koch of libgcrypt and gnupg fame is also not interested in > supporting x32. i'd say not terribly relevant considering he also finds pkg-config to be pointless new technology -mike signa

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 05 October 2012 10:28:45 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > This is the case with dev-lang/v8: it doesn't build on x32 > (), and upstream said they *won't* > support x32 > (). i think you misread.

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-07 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
> > This is the case with dev-lang/v8: it doesn't build on x32 > > (), and upstream said they *won't* > > support x32 > > (). > > > > Note that with v8 it's not just about getting v8 itself to compile

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-06 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 06/10/2012 17:52, Walter Dnes wrote: > In other words, all or nothing. An x32 distro is technically > possible, but it would require every last single binary/library/object > file/etc *INCLUDING PROPRIETARY PROGRAMS AND BINARY BLOBS* to be x32 and > only, and no multilib stuff. If amd64 did

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 11:06:04AM -0700, Diego Elio Petten?? wrote > Nothing stops you from doing that. But if you want them to load from a > non x32-ABI application, no way. As I said on my blog before, the big > problem is that x32 is neither x86-64 nor x86 binary compatible (if they > bumped x

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-06 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 05/10/2012 07:28, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > > I had a crazy idea to just build v8 and v8-dependent packages using > non-x32 ABI, but I'm not sure if it's possible and if it would be the > right thing to do. Nothing stops you from doing that. But if you want them to load from a non x32-ABI a

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 5 October 2012 22:28, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >> Should dev-lang/v8 get p.masked on x32 profile, or is there some better >> way to handle it? What are your suggestions? > > From what Diego wrote about it, I would say we shouldn't spend

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 October 2012 22:28, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > This is the case with dev-lang/v8: it doesn't build on x32 > (), and upstream said they *won't* > support x32 > (). > > Note that with v8 it's no

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Davide Pesavento wrote: > > Is it possible to disable the JIT engine? Well, if you're going to wholesale disable functionality, how about client-side rendering? It drives me nuts as it is REALLY SLOW!!! That is, unless the graphics hardware is local to the client

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-05 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:28 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > This is the case with dev-lang/v8: it doesn't build on x32 > (), and upstream said they *won't* > support x32 > (). > > Note that with v8

[gentoo-dev] packages which won't support x32

2012-10-05 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
This is the case with dev-lang/v8: it doesn't build on x32 (), and upstream said they *won't* support x32 (). Note that with v8 it's not just about getting v8 itself to compile, but also making it ge