Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:23:51 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: james@nexis.net, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, rdm@cfcl.com Subject: Re: first cut of multiple architecture support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970606112009.23734B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199706060436.VAA16559@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Personally, I think that the main targets should be smart > * enough to use defined variables rather than create an extra 10 > * or 12 targets per OS. > > Well, one problem is that OPSYS and ARCH are not defined until you > read bsd.port.mk. So you can't really do much in the port Makefile > (unless you put the targets after the ".include <bsd.port.mk>" line, > which will open a whole new can of worms). > Well, why not have ARCH & OPSYS defined in /etc/make.conf? Yes, I know, it is not the first time I suggest adding something to there... But at least theoretically they could be also used when FreeBSD moves to a non-intel architecture. One could in that way (at least theoretically) cross-build ports/packages for another architecure. Sander > Now that I thought more, I think this should be handled in the new > "Makefile.*" include files. Please forget I ever mentioned this. ;) > > Satoshi >
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