tech-pkg: Re: Additional handling of PLIST for PLIST.${MACHINE_ARCH} and PLIST.${OPSYS}-${MACHINE

Subject: Re: Additional handling of PLIST for PLIST.${MACHINE_ARCH} and PLIST.${OPSYS}-${MACHINE_ARCH}
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/20/2005 18:02:14

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 05:46:20PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 05:00:44PM +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > PLIST.${MACHINE_ARCH:C/i[3-6]86/i386/g}
> 
> Out of curiosity (and completely off-topic): when should ${MACHINE_ARCH}
> ever be set to i486...i686? Wouldn't it make more sense to canonicalize
> the veriable when it gets set initially?

Yeah, I asked myself the same question when i was working on it, but forget
to ask that question in my mail..

Bernd