re: CVS commit: pkgsrc

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Jonathan Perkin writes:
> * On 2021-04-25 at 08:51 BST, matthew green wrote:
>
> >most of these simply extend matching from "aarch64" to "aarch64eb"
> >in various forms of code.  most remaining uses in pkgsrc of
> >"MACHINE_ARCH == aarch64" are because of missing aarch64eb support,
> >such as most of the binary-bootstrap requiring languages like rust,
> >go, and java.
>
> Just be aware that using MACHINE_CPU like this is only going to work 
> with native NetBSD make(1).  Anyone who bootstraps on NetBSD will use 
> the pkgsrc bootstrap-mk-files, where there is no normalisation of 
> aarch64eb in MACHINE_CPU, and these changes won't work.

ah, thanks.  i'll see about fixing them up.


.mrg.