Bug 642094

Summary:	dev-libs/gobject-introspection: add multilib support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dainius Masiliūnas <pastas4>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/sjnewbury/gentoo-gx86-staging/blob/90f1b88b4d13f2a4a5dcb8d1898de2a93e1ecee6/dev-libs/gobject-introspection/gobject-introspection-1.46.0.ebuild
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Bug Blocks:	642054

Description Dainius Masiliūnas 2017-12-23 10:17:06 UTC

At the moment the gobject-introspection ebuild does not provide multilib support. This is needed for other multilib packages (e.g. libsecret with USE=introspection which is the default).

Comment 1 Dainius Masiliūnas 2017-12-23 10:28:35 UTC

sjnewbury used to have a multilib gobject-introspection ebuild in his gentoo-gx86-staging repository (see url), but it's been removed lately since it's too old. However, the same principles should apply to the current version.

Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2017-12-23 12:50:11 UTC

No, you don't need multilib gobject-introspection. gobject-introspection provides the tooling to generate GIR and typelibs, which is a compile-time native host tool; you won't me calling a 32bit version of it on amd64; the 64bit calls will work for the generation.
Also generated typelibs usually also only go to /usr/lib64/girepository-1.0 - it will be picked up from there by python and such use cases, as those won't be multilib either.