[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Introduce destarch keyword into makepkg

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Allan McRae <allan at 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