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  • From: Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Architecture-dependent spells
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:34:58 -0500

The second plan sound like the better way to go to me.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 13:51 -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As I ran across yet another package that's architecture-dependent[0] today,
> perhaps we should look into how to separate those out of the normal
> grimoires?
> We should also decide how separated we want it.
>
> Easy plan (I like this one the best):
> Create extra grimoires for our non-x86 architectures: currently only ppc
> (but we
> also have a sparc app: silo) and move non-x86-specific packages into their
> respective locales.
>
> More correct plan (this one would make other architectures work better
> [i.e. no
> x86 specific apps to break on their machines]):
> Create extra grimoires for all architecture-specific applications (including
> x86) and move spells which only compile and/or are written specifically for
> those applications to their respective grimoires.
>
> Other ideas (some really bad ;)):
> Create flags for which architectures a package does/does not work on.
> Hard-code Sorcery for the corner cases (using x86 as the "standard" install)
> Ignore this problem (nyet)
> Others?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -sandalle
>
> [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5830, along with silo and
> perhaps
> a few others (lilo?).
>
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