[RFC] cygport: arch-specific workdir (was: cygport cross compilation)

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2014-03-19 13:04, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2014-03-19 11:32, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I've just started experimenting with using cygport for cross compiling,
>> and I've come across two issues:
>>
>> 1. This is just a request: The latest cygport for Fedora appends i686 or
>> x86_64 to the name of the working directory.  I would find it convenient
>> if cygport did the same thing on Cygwin, at least if the --32 or --64
>> option is specified.
>
> Actually, that is experimental code (based on a request from another
> cygport user) that was accidentally shipped when I had to reroll the
> source tarball for compatibility with F20/UnversionedDocDirs.  Would
> people like to see this done always, never, or only when cross-building?

There hasn't been much comment on this.  Since it would be a visible 
change for package maintainers, I would appreciate more of a consensus. 
  Are there any objections to making the workdir always arch-specific 
(IOW name-ver-rel.arch)?


Yaakov