[pacman-dev] Summary of pacman development

[Dan McGee]

On 7/9/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
>
> > * Remove CHOST from makepkg.conf? (
> > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-July/008662.html)
>
> Urgh. I guess still a lot of scripts check this. Or why is the first
> thing when building a LFS system to set this variable?.
>
> And there's more than just configure scripts. There's scons, cmake and
> some more.
>
> And take care that we have used CHOST for some superold stupid scripts
> where we use CHOST=i686... on x86_64 systems to get it build ;-)
>
> I see no need to remove it. Even it nothing will make use of it in the
> future we should keep it for long.

Well if you look at the thread...right now it isn't doing anything,
because makepkg doesn't export it. So it was a two way question, sorry
I didn't completely fill it out. It should EITHER be exported OR
removed.

-Dan