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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:08:29PM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2004 10:40 am, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> >
> > I'd really prefer a flag in DETAILS saying on which architectures the 
> > spell
> > works.
> > Making arch specific grimoires makes the whole thing a lot more
> > complicated, especially thinking about the future with more than the
> > current x86 and ppc archs. E.g. if a spell work on x86 and ppc, but not
> > on sparc and arm, we'd need to maintain two seperate version of the
> > spell (one for ppc, one for x86), with a flag we'd just mark the spell
> > working on x86 and ppc and maintain it in one place.
> 
> And, of course, adding any possibly special or different files that need to 
> be 
> processed depending on the architecture.
 
Yes, although for most autotool based software it will be the same, and
for many others it could be handled with a switch in the BUILD file.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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