On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:09:26 -0400
Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 02:02 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 02 July 2012 13:37:53 Richard Yao wrote:
> >> On 07/02/2012 10:54 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> >>> hu? yes, as already pointed out, uname is not reliable when
> >>> cross-compiling. You should use CHOST, and then you get
> >>> tc-arch-kernel. See freebsd-lib ebuild for how it is handled.
> >>
> >> In that case, it should be 'local arch=$(tc-arch-kernel)'. Using
> >> tc-arch-kernel by itself causes problems when building on Linux,
> >> because x86 can be passed, which FreeBSD's build system does not
> >> understand.
> >
> > the function specifically handles freebsd in this case. why isn't
> > that code sufficient ?
> >
> >> Also, this function is not meant for cross compilation.
> >
> > then it doesn't really belong in the tree. native builds are just
> > a special case of cross-compiling.
> > -mike
>
> The idea is to use this to assist in building parts of FreeBSD on
> Linux for Linux (or on Prefix for whatever platform it runs). Anyway,
> I will keep this in ebuilds until it has several ebuilds using it.
> Then we can revisit it.
>
you probably want something like:
tc-arch-kernel "${CHOST%%-*}-gentoo-freebsd9.0"
then
we do not really care about the version suffix in tc-arch functions, so
you can also omit it.
A.
