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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 1d0c89529..27f47d2b1 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -314,49 +314,6 @@ the user does not specify any of the previous choices. Note that if any of the packages listed are already merged, the package manager will use that to consider the dependency satisfied. -.SS "Cross-compilation" -Portage supports cross-compilation into a subdirectory specified by \fBROOT\fR. -.TP -.B Host -\fIHost\fR in this context means the platform hosting the build process, i.e. -what autotools calls CBUILD. -Its packages are contained in the root of the filesystem ("\fI/\fR"). - -If \fBROOT\fR is "\fI/\fR", all dependency types will be installed there. -Otherwise, for EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR (experimental -\fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR), only \fBHDEPEND\fR is installed into "\fI/\fR". -For EAPIs that do not support \fBHDEPEND\fR, the behaviour is controlled by the -\fI\-\-root-deps\fR flag to \fBemerge\fR(1), defaulting to install only -\fBDEPEND\fR into the \fIhost\fR. -.TP -.B Target -\fITarget\fR refers to the platform that the package will later run on, i.e. -what autotools calls CHOST. -The directory housing this system is specified by \fBROOT\fR. -If it is different from "\fI/\fR", i.e. \fIhost\fR and \fItarget\fR are not the -same, this variable contains the path to the directory housing the \fItarget\fR -system. - -For EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR (experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR), -\fBDEPEND\fR, \fBRDEPEND\fR, and \fBPDEPEND\fR -list the \fItarget\fR dependencies, i.e. those to be installed into \fBROOT\fR. -For EAPIs that do not support \fBHDEPEND\fR, the \fBemerge\fR(1) flag -\fI\-\-root-deps\fR controls what the package manager installs there. -Without it, \fBemerge\fR defaults to install only runtime dependencies (i.e. -\fBRDEPEND\fR and \fBPDEPEND\fR) into \fBROOT\fR. -.PP -See section \fBVARIABLES\fR for more information about the \fBDEPEND\fR, -\fBRDEPEND\fR and \fBHDEPEND\fR variables. -.TP -.B The targetroot USE flag -For EAPIs that support the "\fItargetroot\fR" USE flag, that flag is -automatically enabled by the package manager if \fIhost\fR and \fItarget\fR -system are not the same, i.e. if the \fBROOT\fR is not "\fI/\fR". -This is necessary where the package to be built needs an executable copy of -itself during the build process. -A known example is dev-lang/python, which needs to run a Python interpreter -during compilation. - .SH "VARIABLES" .TP .B Usage Notes |