[aur-general] architecture independent packages

[Abhishek Dasgupta]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Roman Kyrylych
<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/3/16, Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg at gmail.com>:
>
> > For an architecture independent package, is it sufficient to build the
>  >  package once,
>  >  rename it appropriately and upload?
>
>  No, because there is arch = i686/x86_64 in .PKGINFO
>
>
>  > Or should it be built on both 32 and 64 bit?
>
>  No. :-)
>  For example, you have i686 system:
>  i686: makepkg (but do not use -c option)
>  x86_64: CARCH=x86_64 makepkg -R
>  ;-)
>
>  --
>  Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
>

Thanks!
I noticed a few packages in community which are architecture-independent
but the versions are different in 32 and 64 bit; so I could just
download the existing
package, modify the .PKGINFO and repackage it for 64bit w/o compiling, right?

-- Abhishek