[arch-general] Multi architecture binary pkgs

[Dan Vrátil]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:48:52 +0100, Rémy Oudompheng
<remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010/12/6 Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> However, maybe a sensible way to do that would be to allow build()
> function to be replaced by "build_$arch" functions in the same fashion
> as with split packages.

In most cases, the build() function is same on every architecture, just
configure,make,make install so I don't see no advantage in having
build_$arch() and package_$arch() and
package_$arch_splitpkgname()...this would just make the PKGBUILD huge
and full of duplicate code.

On the other hand, the original idea seems good to me, I'd just
implement it similar way you suggested, i.e. depends_$arch=(),
optdepends_$arch=() etc. You also still need to have a fallback array,
like depends=() for all architectures and depends_x86_64=() specially
when there will be some difference in dependencies on i686 and x86_64
etc.

Dan

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