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[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:03:04AM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Monday, 11. April 2005 10:04, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >   Log:
> >   Assist getting more ports working on AMD64 by obeying the
> >   Ports Collection documentation and use 'ARCH' rather than 'MACHINE_ARCH'.
> 
> The porter's handbook, section 5.11 has an example that uses MACHINE_ARCH, 
> which is the template for a lot of MACHINE_ARCH usage in ports, 

I wondered how this got copied around so many times.

> including a few places your commit missed, like bsd.gnome.mk,
> bsd.kde.mk, bsd.gnustep.mk and, most importantly, bsd.port.subdir.mk
> and bsd.port.mk itself (for setting CONFIGURE_TARGET(!)).

I purposefully didn't touch Mk/*.mk.  I have to assume the authors of
them got it right. :-)

> I'm not familiar with the crossbuilding logic in FreeBSD, so could somebody 
> who is make a definitive statement which of the two variables is 
> crossbuild-safe and then proceed to change the respective bits in the 
> porter's handbook and bsd.port.mk accordingly?

I would be good to have the two copies of documentation to agree.

-- 
-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)