Re: wip/kegs

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:26:29PM -0500, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> > 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.

Just give it a best effort.

If you know some platforms won't work, you can disable them on the
pkgsrc level using e.g. ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM.
 Thomas

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