On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:28 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan...@gentoo.org> wrote: > This is the case with dev-lang/v8: it doesn't build on x32 > (<https://bugs.gentoo.org/423815>), and upstream said they *won't* > support x32 > (<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/v8-users/c-_URSZqTq8/7wHl095t2CMJ>). > > Note that with v8 it's not just about getting v8 itself to compile, but > also making it generate correct JIT code on x32, which would require > substantial changes to v8 code (in fact, a whole new 40K arch port, see > the discussion linked to above). >
Is it possible to disable the JIT engine? > Should dev-lang/v8 get p.masked on x32 profile, or is there some better > way to handle it? What are your suggestions? > Qt5 uses a forked version of v8 for QML/QtQuick. So this means that x11-libs/qt-jsbackend:5 (available in qt overlay) and all the packages depending on it, including qt-declarative:5 and kde, won't be available on x32 :-/ > 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. > > Paweł > Thanks, Davide
