Bug 137911

Summary:	crossdev chooses bad keywords
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Torsten Kaiser <Storklerk>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Torsten Kaiser 2006-06-25 01:33:08 UTC

I was trying to build an arm-softfloat-linux-gnu toolchain, but using the command 'crossdev -t arm-softfloat-linux-gnu' tried to use versions of gcc and glibc that where not suitable for arm.

The problem is, that in my make.conf I had KEYWORDS="~x86", as that was my unstable x86 test system.
crossdev then added in packages.keywords the arm and ~arm keywords for the packages from the cross-arm-softfloat-linux-gnu.
But when doing the emerge of the crosstoolchain, emerge still used the gcc/glibc with the higher version that only had the ~x86 keyword.

In my opinion crossdev should have added -x86 and -~x86 to its packages.keywords to prevent this from happening.
(Or -ppc and -~pcc in case of an pcc hostsystem, etc...)

This is especially important for arm, as no gcc-4 and no glibc-2.4 has an arm keyword. But alpha and sparc will have the same problems.


Not really related feature request:
a --stable option for crossdev that only adds the stable keywords to package.keywords.

Comment 1 Torsten Kaiser 2006-06-25 01:51:39 UTC

Sorry for the bugspam, but Bugzilla was ridiculus slow...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137909 ***