Commit 545f41df4c2d596906ec121928fb77681185c458 broke the ability to create a multilib profile on PowerPC. While no such profile currently exists in the tree, I use one locally (https://github.com/smaeul/portage/tree/ppc64/make.profile). Until my last `emerge --sync`, it worked well. This change silently broke that -- the ABI_PPC USE_EXPAND variable and all of its values still exist, so no USE flags changed; however, when I updated sys-libs/musl, it silently deleted my 32-bit libc. Thankfully, sys-devel/gcc failed to build its target libraries without a 32-bit libc, or this would have destroyed my multiarch/multilib setup. I can (and will) patch around this locally, but this apparently purely cosmetic change causes real breakage. Please revert it! Reproducible: Always
ABI_PPC USE flags are actually seen as disappearing in `emerge` output: [ebuild R ] category/package... USE="..." ... ABI_PPC="(-32%) (-64%)" ...
It's not a cosmetic change. It was a change necessary to resume services killed by lack of resources to support this many flags. I'm sorry but we can't revert it until we are able to fix pkgcheck or redesign the whole multilib, whichever comes first. We can reintroduce ppc multilib flags if riscv reverts their multilib that caused the breakage in the first place. Do you have any actual software needing 32-bit libraries? Given you mentioning musl, I honestly doubt any prebuilt software works on your system.
> We can reintroduce ppc multilib flags if riscv reverts their multilib that > caused the breakage in the first place. > > Do you have any actual software needing 32-bit libraries? Given you > mentioning musl, I honestly doubt any prebuilt software works on your system. riscv multilib useflags are gone for a while now, so in principle ppc could go again...
