On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:09:42 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > You can do it through bashrc. But then, if this is about working | > around Portage's annoying lack of sane cross compile handling, why | > not put a little effort into fixing it properly rather than a lot | > of effort into making the tree more complicated? | | Err, I think you're mixing up different things. How should portage be | able to do sane cross compiling if you control the instruction sets | through use flags which are blocked in profiles the build system is | using?
That's just it. You shouldn't be using the wrong profile when compiling things. | In fact, moving away from use flags over to the real(TM) | solution is a step towards fixing the issue. Also, it doesn't make | the tree more complicated. It is far more intuitive that supported | instruction sets are used if the user doesn't explicitly wish not to | than having some strange use flags that don't mean what they're named | like. That's like saying "well we should just link against whatever's available, it's far more intuitive than letting the user decide". -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
