[arch-general] Multi architecture binary pkgs

[Rémy Oudompheng]

On 2010/12/6 jesse jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, if one wants to make a pkg, lets
> say, for an app that only has binaries available
> and only for 32bit archs, then one usually
> makes a bin32-appname pkg for it. I don't
> like this and would like to have the bin32
> and the non-bin32 pkgs to be just one
> pkg with the name of the app. But if one
> makes this kind of a pkg, one must use
> ugly if [[ "$CARCH" = .... statements are in
> the PKGBUILD, so I was thinking that
> could it be possible to implement some
> new variables in PKGBUILDS
> like depends32 and optdepends32
> and then build32() {} and
> package32() {}? I dont know how makepkg
> is written, so I dont know how hard it is
> to implement these, but in the best case it shouldn't
> be more than just one or two if-statements
> in the code, so if arch is x86_64 use
> the 32 variables if they are present.

Hello,

This seems to assume that pacman and makepkg run on systems that are
either 32-bit or 64-bit. IMO, your proposal looks very "ad hoc", and
would add unnecessary complications to makepkg, with no benefit when
dealing with PowerPC, ARM, and other architectures.

-- 
Rémy.