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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting 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.

So, perhaps an ARCHS flag?

ARCHS="x86 ppc ppc64 sparc sparc64 etc."

With the architectures specified being ones that this spell works on? Then we
can put architecture-specific checks in BUILD (or other files, much like the
linux spell does) to do any architecture-specific options.

-sandalle

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