Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/multimedia/x264-devel
To: None <pkgsrc-changes@NetBSD.org>
From: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 02/23/2006 16:50:41
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:09:45PM +0100, Gilles Dauphin wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Add build time dependency on nasm / yasm for i386 and amd64.
> 
> I would like the following:

I strongly object that.

> because 'generic' solaris MACHINE_ARCH is i386 and don't take care of ABI.
> Second, x86_64 Solaris MACHINE_ARCH does not exist in pkgsrc.
> maybe it is also true for other system with bi-arch (32/64) ABI.

Solaris platform files should fix up the MACHINE_ARCH in that case.
A lot of packages will be broken by this because everyone else does not
use i386 for the 64bit ABI.

Joerg