Bug 93128

Summary:	[Request] Compile in 32-bit versus 64-bit
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andrew Dorney <linuxnoob>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) <eradicator>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	amd64, vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Dorney 2005-05-18 19:12:06 UTC

I would like to request a command-line option for portage, so that when an AMD64 user emerges something, it can be emerged in x86 versus amd64. This would also solve quite a few binary issues for a lot of people.

I'm not a programmer, but I'm guessing this is going to be a hard(er) thing to implement, what with dependency checking between x86 and amd64, but I thought I'd suggest it anyway. I'd love to be able to emerge x86 things at will.

~~ Andrew D.

Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-18 19:17:17 UTC

This is way way off.

Comment 2 Andrew Dorney 2005-05-18 19:59:29 UTC

This is way way off.
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I'm... sorry? Maybe I don't understand something here, but just "this is way
off" doesn't help clarify things for me.

~~ Andrew D.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-05-18 20:36:10 UTC

put -m32 into your CFLAGS

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-05-18 20:36:52 UTC

afaik you can already do this by running something like `ABI=x86 emerge <pkg>`