Gx86-multilib

The gx86-multilib project aims to provide means to build Gentoo packages for multiple ABIs (multilib) and oversee the establishment of packages supporting that feature in Gentoo.

Goals
The main goal is to provide a feasible and user-friendly way of supporting applications which are not compatible with the native ABI. This mostly targets closed-source applications (such as Skype) which are not released for the native ABI/arch, applications interfacing those (such as wine) and — in specific cases — applications which are broken when compiled for the native ABI.

A side goal is to deprecate and remove the emul-linux packages, replacing them with a better solution.

The eclasses
The following eclasses are provided for multilib-related use:


 * multilib-build.eclass
 * autotools-multilib.eclass
 * multilib-minimal.eclass