Subject: Re: ONLY_FOR_ARCH in pkg's
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/22/1998 10:27:09
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 02:16:11 +0200 (MET DST) Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Simon Burge wrote:
> > Good idea! ONLY_FOR_TOOLCHAIN and NOT_FOR_TOOLCHAIN also come to mind.
> > At the moment, some of the problems seem to be elf/aout related, rather
> > than architecture specific.
>
> Let's stay serious and rather fix the toolchain instead of marking pkgs
> as just not usable on a certain toolchain.
Umm, I was being serious. First, it would fix a _current_ problem
a lot easier than fixing the toolchain (but I agree that has to be
done), and second there may be packages one day which don't work on
elf/a.out/whatever (no I can't think of any off the top of my head).
Simon.