i've recently started typing 'make package' instead of 'make install'
for the pkg stuff i build on my machines.  this works very well
(modulo the occasional transient build problem which a cvs update
usually cures), but since i share my pkgsrc tree between several
machines of varying architectures and revision level, it started to
bite me.  i'd build a given pkg for my current i386 machine, then
build it on a sparc, then try to install it on another i386 machine,
and lose horribly.

	/usr/pkg/bin/tcsh: Exec format error. Binary file not executable.

ick.

what we really need is something like OBJMACHINE but for packages.  is
there anything in pkgsrc that does this already, or should i wack
something together?

i was thinking something along the lines of

	.if defined(PKGMACHINE)
	PACKAGES_ARCHDIR?= (something like HOST_OSTYPE from bsd.own.mk)
	.endif

and then everywhere that ${PACKAGES} is used, we could try a mkdir
${PACKAGES}/${PACKAGES_SUBDIR} if that didn't already exist.  or
something like that.

that way i can make packages for my sparc, my alpha, all my i386
machines, etc, without worrying about clobbering binary pkgs for other
architectures.

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