On 5 October 2012 22:28, "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). > > 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 much time and effort on x32. I know it's the new and shiny thing, but it doesn't seem very useful. I think arm64/aarch64/armv8 is more promising, if you want to play around with a new arch. > 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. If it's easy to do a kind of multilib setup, then it might be worth doing. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
