RE: wip/kegs

"Larson, Timothy E." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.review
Message-ID <226316B3E1F749498E28ACA66321D5BA2AD5E1C0@oma00cexmbx03.corp.westworlds.com>
From: Larson, Timothy E. [mailto:[email protected]]
> > If you _know_ it only supports some platforms, ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM is
> > fine.
> >
> > Does it use assembler or what is the problem?
> 
> I think the developers have only tried it on a limited number of
> platforms, so those are the only ones that they have supplied their set
> of custom vars/flags for.  Systems similar to the ones they've tried
> might be able to use one of those var/flag sets-in fact, that's what
> they suggest doing when attempting to build on unsupported systems.
> (That's how I got NetBSD/i386 to build.)  Like I mentioned, I could try
> mapping systems to configs, based on endianness and other factors, to
> try to cover more architectures, but obviously there are no guarantees.

Any feedback on how to proceed?  This is potentially a very minor thing, and could be done before Q2 freeze.


Tim

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