On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:46:20 +0200 Francesco R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Never said this, I've a dual opteron running informix that can *only* > run under a x86 environment. > this is the profile for the main environment: > make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0 > and this one for the chroot: > /chroot/ifx/etc/make.profile -> > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.0/ > They are covered from completely different keywords and profiles. So it runs fine on amd64, but only with the 32-bit ABI. > With your experience what are the pro and cons of merging different > archs ? Fewer different keywords to manage makes for easier maintenance in most cases. If mips had 6 different keywords for different ABIs/endianness we'd never get anything done. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
