On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 23:02 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 16:50 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 14:48 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > > It might me useful to have a %bits macro automatically set to 32 or 64 > > > as appropriate. Does this seem useful or is there a better way? > > > > I'm not aware of a better way, this would be quite useful IMHO. > > A better way would be to rewrite any code requiring such tricks to not > require them. > > In modern C/C++ there hardly is any need for such band-aids (cf. > stdint.h, inttypes.h, limits.h) But this would be handy if we can use it during the build. We could do little tricks like: Requires: foo.%bits Provides: foo.%bits and it would let us get rid of multilib file-requires like: /usr/lib[64]/libgcj.so.9 -sv -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
