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Bug 180419 - PMS doesn't mention ARCH in ebuild's globally-defined variables
Summary: PMS doesn't mention ARCH in ebuild's globally-defined variables
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: PMS/EAPI (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: PMS/EAPI
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Reported: 2007-05-31 07:48 UTC by Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED)
Modified: 2008-03-17 17:59 UTC (History)
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Description Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-31 07:48:08 UTC 
ARCH is mentioned several times in chapter about profiles, but not in ebuild env. At least portage provides it though, and lots of ebuilds use it. But I think we should decide if user can override this variable so easily (with arbitrary stuff, leading to bugs like bug 180410), or not...
Comment 1 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-31 08:18:05 UTC 
Overriding it is useful for cross compiling.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-05-31 08:36:41 UTC 
with the advent of --config-root, it isnt that big of a deal

then again, if we had automatic ARCH generation based on CHOST, this wouldnt be a problem ;)

back to the point ... i'm not sure locking ARCH out of make.conf and in profiles is really the way to go, especially since we have no mechanism for doing so

tell the ricers to stop being stupid
Comment 3 Ciaran McCreesh 2008-03-17 11:16:05 UTC 
No need to mention it in PMS. It comes from profile make.defaults, which is already covered.