Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>>> Is this also a good time to note that the amd64 and x86 could
>>> *easily* be covered under the same keyword? We cover a large
>>> variety of mips machines/userlands under one keyword, with
>>> differences much more significant then that between x86 and amd64.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry I disagree with this, differences exists and sometimes are a
>> problem. Some package and library don't compile cleanly under amd64
>> arch.
>> On few but existant cases it's good to have two different archs. Not
>> even going near the analizing the differences in the profiles.
>
>
> So these things won't compile in a x86 chroot on a amd64 box even?
Never said this, I've a dual opteron running informix that can *only*
run under a x86 environment.
this is the profile for the main environment:
make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0
and this one for the chroot:
/chroot/ifx/etc/make.profile ->
../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.0/
They are covered from completely different keywords and profiles.
> I find that really hard to believe. Besides, close collaboration
> between folks with x86 and folks with amd64 installs can make it easy
> to ensure the same versions work on both arches (if you really want to
> call them separate arches...) Your profile argument is silly too,
> since both arches could *easily* be merged into sub-profiles in our
> cascading system.
Maybe I've not understud the first sentence, what are you saying is that
amd64 teams can do x86 testing, we agree on this (all not kernel related).
profiles: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux{/amd64/2005.1/ ,
x86/2005.1/} looks rather different to me (not analized them deeply)
> Besides, we have the same sorts of problems on mips, except they are
> magnified since we have a possibility of 3 different userland ABIs, on
> both big and little endian hardware. After dealing with this sort of
> stuff for a long time with *far* fewer developers and time in general,
> I'm really not impressed with your argument. You'll have to do better
> then that.
With your experience what are the pro and cons of merging different archs ?
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