On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 02/01/2017 01:03 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> W dniu 01.02.2017, śro o godzinie 09∶06 -0800, użytkownik Zac Medico >> napisał: >>> The native-extensions USE flag will enable building of the >>> libc bindings. This is not enabled by default because it does >>> not support cross compilation. >>> >>> X-Gentoo-bug: 571444 >>> X-Gentoo-bug-url: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571444 >>> --- >>> sys-apps/portage/metadata.xml | 1 + >>> sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild | 7 ++++++- >>> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/sys-apps/portage/metadata.xml b/sys- >>> apps/portage/metadata.xml >>> index e032ea5..882d3ba 100644 >>> --- a/sys-apps/portage/metadata.xml >>> +++ b/sys-apps/portage/metadata.xml >>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ >>> <use> >>> <flag name="epydoc">Build html API documentation with >>> epydoc.</flag> >>> <flag name="ipc">Use inter-process communication between portage >>> and running ebuilds.</flag> >>> + <flag name="native-extensions">Build native extensions. Cross- >>> compilation is not supported.</flag> >>> <flag name="xattr">Preserve extended attributes (filesystem- >>> stored metadata) when installing files. Usually only required for >>> hardened systems.</flag> >>> </use> >>> </pkgmetadata> >>> diff --git a/sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild b/sys- >>> apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild >>> index 6a6f515..981db26 100644 >>> --- a/sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild >>> +++ b/sys-apps/portage/portage-9999.ebuild >>> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Porta >>> ge" >>> LICENSE="GPL-2" >>> KEYWORDS="" >>> SLOT="0" >>> -IUSE="build doc epydoc +ipc linguas_ru selinux xattr" >>> +IUSE="build doc epydoc +ipc linguas_ru native-extensions selinux >>> xattr" >> >> Wouldn't it be better to enable it by default? > > Yeah, that should be fine. We may get a few duplicates of bug 594744 > reported, but that's no reason not to enable it by default.
+1 on enabling native-extensions by default. The cross-compiling community is a small minority, and we should not base the default on their use case.
