Subject: Re: ONLY_FOR_ARCH in pkg's
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Thorsten Frueauf <s_frueau@ira.uka.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/20/1998 17:00:18
Hello!

> The problem being, if you have something that works on everything *except*
> alpha, or *except* alpha and mips.. then you run into a mess of:
> i386 hp300 mvme68k blah blah blah.

You would not list hp300 and mvme68k here.

> And then when something like next68k comes along, blam, it breaks on that
> because it wasn't listed.

No, cause next68k is included in m68k. Architectures that are grouped
like m68k and mips are not listed seperatly.

> What I think we really need, is a NOT_FOR_ARCH define, so I can go and say:
> NOT_FOR_ARCH=   alpha mips

Its still valid that such a feature would be nice :)

Greets
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