Re: What is the best way to restrict building a package to 64-bit platforms?

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:40:56 -0700

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On Friday, July 10, 2026 7:39:07 PM Mountain Standard Time Soren Stoutner 
wrote:
> I have a vague recollection that there is a pseudo-package that only exists 
on
> 64-bit platforms, and you can restrict a package to only attempt 64-bit
> builds by Build-Depending on that package, but I don’t remember what the 
name
> was, and I haven’t been able to discover it by searching.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?

The answer is to Build-Depend on architecture-is-64-bit, which is a pseudo-
package provided by architecture-properties.

Thanks to Manuel Guerra for the hint.

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Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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