On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Thomas Bächler wrote:
If destarch is added to a PKGBUILD,
I read that as de-starch and was confused for a while... :)
makepkg sets the architecture of the resulting package to $destarch instead of $CARCH. This is useful if you want to cross-create packages for one architecture on the other.
Using
arch=('i686') destarch='x86_64'
makes it possible to build multilib packages and to build grub without the export CARCH="x86_64" hack.
So when you are building the i686 packages, you have to comment out the destarch value? I think it would be better to use a flag like -D/--dest x86_64.
I wanted to make this same point too but I was afraid I interpreted the patch wrong. It doesn't seem intuitive to have to comment things in and out of the PKGBUILD. Of course, it is now just as easy to do: CARCH=blah makepkg which seems to make this patch not worth it? -Dan