I wanted to make a kernel on my ARM platform because since some update, genkernel can't crosscompile busybox. I was observing the logs and after the kernel, its modules, busybox, cryptsetup and e2fsprogs were finished I saw that genkernel is compiling boost. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install sys-fs/lvm2 with USE -thin being a permanent flag for this package. Remember to not set static USE. 2. Ask genkernel to compile the kernel and initramfs. Actual Results: Genkernel will compile boost in a situation where nobody wants boost and nobody asked for boost, and that's bad. It's bad because boost is a huge package that can compile for hours on some systems, which adds a lot more time spent on making a kernel with an initramfs. Expected Results: Genkernel respects USEflags and compiles sys-fs/lvm2 without thin provisioning which is the only thing that requires boost in lvm2.
Closing as invalid. Latest genkernel-4 doesn't use any system packages anymore. Genkernel-4 builds everything it uses on its own. Also, genkernel-4 should have working cross-compile support. Please test with genkernel-4 and re-open/file a new bug if bug is still present in latest genkernel version.
Regarding your boost question: Because we are now building everything on our own and we need to support thin volumes, genkernel-4 also builds boost. Sure, for some systems this will take some time but making it optional (i.e. offer a --no-thin parameter) would be too complicated and given that genkernel-4 should have working cross compile support, it isn't worth it.
