Re: [gentoo-dev] Profile-enforced big-endian USE flag

2017-06-29 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 06/28/2017 18:29, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:52:26 -0400 > Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:44 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: >>> I am therefore proposing a new global big-endian flag. This could be >>> masked by

Re: [gentoo-dev] Profile-enforced big-endian USE flag

2017-06-28 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 6:29 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:52:26 -0400 > Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:44 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: >> > I am therefore proposing a new global big-endian flag.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Profile-enforced big-endian USE flag

2017-06-28 Thread Gordon Pettey
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:29 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:52:26 -0400 > Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:44 PM, James Le Cuirot > wrote: > > > I am therefore proposing a new global big-endian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Profile-enforced big-endian USE flag

2017-06-28 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:52:26 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:44 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > I am therefore proposing a new global big-endian flag. This could be > > masked by default and unmasked + forced in the relevant profiles

Re: [gentoo-dev] Profile-enforced big-endian USE flag

2017-06-28 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:44 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > I am therefore proposing a new global big-endian flag. This could be > masked by default and unmasked + forced in the relevant profiles under > arch. I will apply this according to the mapping defined in tc-endian of >

[gentoo-dev] Profile-enforced big-endian USE flag

2017-06-27 Thread James Le Cuirot
Hello devs, I'm currently adding ppc64le to the list of platforms supported by icedtea-bin before we lose gcj to save me fudging around later. This addition presents a small problem. I currently use the ARCH (e.g. amd64) and ABI (e.g. abi_x86_32) USE flags to fetch the relevant tarballs. The