On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2010/12/6 Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This seems to assume that pacman and makepkg run on systems that are >> either 32-bit or 64-bit. IMO, your proposal looks very "ad hoc", and >> would add unnecessary complications to makepkg, with no benefit when >> dealing with PowerPC, ARM, and other architectures. > > However, maybe a sensible way to do that would be to allow build() > function to be replaced by "build_$arch" functions in the same fashion > as with split packages. i like that idea, though i wonder if that would also entail allowing for all split functions (possibly) needing an $arch. perhaps `_$arch` could be appended to ANY function in PKGBUILD, and makepkg would use where appropriate; perhaps even build them all using chroots/etc. C Anthony
