From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30039 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2014 17:20:19 -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 30028 invoked by uid 89); 28 Mar 2014 17:20:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net Received: from qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (HELO qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.30.96) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:20:17 +0000 Received: from omta18.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.74]) by qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id j1h61n0021bwxycA95LG0r; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:20:16 +0000 Received: from [10.1.5.114] ([216.34.91.132]) by omta18.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id j5J71n00n2rLPg88e5JAC8; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:18:14 +0000 Message-ID: <5335AECE.9000103@acm.org> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:20:00 -0000 From: David Rothenberger 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> In-Reply-To: <533472F3.6000504@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-03/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2014-03-19 13:04, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> On 2014-03-19 11:32, Ken Brown wrote: >>> I've just started experimenting with using cygport for cross compiling, >>> and I've come across two issues: >>> >>> 1. This is just a request: The latest cygport for Fedora appends i686 or >>> x86_64 to the name of the working directory. I would find it convenient >>> if cygport did the same thing on Cygwin, at least if the --32 or --64 >>> option is specified. >> >> 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 favor making the workdir always arch-specific. It would allow me to build my package for both archs at the same time. Currently, I have to build for one, move the created packages, then rebuild for the other arch. -- David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org "Indecision is the basis of flexibility" -- button at a Science Fiction convention.