From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] cygport: arch-specific workdir
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <533491EF.1030100@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871txn4dip.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 3/27/2014 4:01 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yaakov (Cygwin/X) writes:
>>> Actually, that is experimental code (based on a request from another
>>> cygport user) that was accidentally shipped when I had to reroll the
>>> source tarball for compatibility with F20/UnversionedDocDirs. Would
>>> people like to see this done always, never, or only when cross-building?
>>
>> There hasn't been much comment on this. Since it would be a visible
>> change for package maintainers, I would appreciate more of a
>> consensus. Are there any objections to making the workdir always
>> arch-specific (IOW name-ver-rel.arch)?
>
> I would rather have {build,inst,dist}/<arch> directories inside the
> workdir so the same package could build for both x86 and x86_64 in one
> workdir.
That would be inconvenient for the situation where you have to do a new
build (and bump the release number) for only one arch. Also, there
might be arch-specific patches, requiring arch-specific src and origsrc
directories, so you don't really save any disk space by having a common
workdir.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-27 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-19 16:32 cygport cross compilation Ken Brown
2014-03-19 18:05 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2014-03-19 18:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-03-19 18:39 ` Ken Brown
2014-03-19 18:50 ` Ken Brown
2014-03-27 18:50 ` [RFC] cygport: arch-specific workdir (was: cygport cross compilation) Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2014-03-27 20:01 ` [RFC] cygport: arch-specific workdir Achim Gratz
2014-03-27 21:02 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2014-03-27 23:47 ` David Stacey
2014-03-28 17:20 ` David Rothenberger
2014-04-27 20:22 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2014-05-04 16:41 ` Achim Gratz
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