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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:15:45AM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
  | hi guys,
  |=20
  | I've suggested the following idea to a few people before,
  | and this thread seems like a good excuse to mention it again:
  |=20
  | it seems to me that it would make more sense to do builds based on
  | $(MACHINE_ARCH) than on $(MACHINE), since the vast majority of the
  | files in a release are the same for (eg.) all 11 or 12 of the m68k
  | platforms.  the few programs that are really only relevant on one
  | particular $(MACHINE) (such as grfconfig, which is only useful on amiga)
  | could be built and installed on other systems anyway.   someday when
  | we move to the syspkg stuff then the installation process can allow
  | people to skip installing such files on systems where they aren't usefu=
l.

this is a good idea in general, although we have some outstanding
toolchain issues to resolve as well.  i discovered some of these
whilst manually validating the contents of the "MACHINE_ARCH
sharable" sets for NetBSD 1.6 - certain binaries that should have
been bit-copies were not.  (PRs 18316 & 18317 are some examples)

i suggest we move this discussion as a separate thread to
tech-toolchain.

cheers,
luke.

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