[PATCH cygport 2/3] Don't allow SRC_URI or PATCH_URI to depend on ARCH

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue May 2 13:39:00 GMT 2017


On 02/05/2017 14:31, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> The values which SRC_URI and PATCH_URI evaluate to should not change
>> depending on ARCH, as this will make the source package arch-dependent
>
> In that case what's the right thing to do when we have arch-specific
> patches? For example screen has one, for x86_64 only.

You could wrap C code in the patch in #ifdef __x86_64__ / #endif

However, looking at screen-terminfo-autoconf.patch, it would seem to be 
entirely benign to use that on x86.

I don't quite understand how screen reliably builds on any x86_64 
platform without that patch...



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