From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8559 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2014 21:02:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8544 invoked by uid 89); 27 Mar 2014 21:02:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_JMF_BR,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock03.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.12.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:02:37 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id s2RL2Y6x006223 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:02:35 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id s2RL2XsV005861 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:02:34 -0400 Message-ID: <533491EF.1030100@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:02:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [RFC] cygport: arch-specific workdir References: <5329C6AE.7080803@cornell.edu> <5329DC45.7070806@users.sourceforge.net> <533472F3.6000504@users.sourceforge.net> <871txn4dip.fsf@Rainer.invalid> In-Reply-To: <871txn4dip.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-03/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 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}/ 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