Hello Marcin,
On Friday, 29 November 2013 at 12:48, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am working on porting Fedora for AArch64 architecture. This means
> patching many packages and during that time I noticed lot of checks for
> 32/64-bit architectures.
>
> Most common one is:
>
> %global something 32
> %ifarch x86_64 ppc64 s390
> %global something 64
> %endif
>
> Which can be now replaced to simple:
>
> %global something %{__isa_bits}
>
> And this works fine in Fedora 19 and beyond (including RHEL 7). There
> are also some other variations of 32/64-bit checks which could be converted.
>
> Can use of %__isa_bits be somehow announced/suggested to developers?
> Would cut amount of patching needed for each new architecture.
This is basically a good idea, but it'd have a better chance of
happening if you could prepare an actual draft text to be included
in the Packaging Guidelines.
Regards,
Dominik
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