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Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@...>
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Fwd: [gentoo-alt] The Gentoo Linux mini-alternate-architecture howto
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Wed Apr 17 15:09:02 2002
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On Wednesday 17 April 2002 21:57, drobbins wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> We now have a system in place for handling/detecting the current system
> architecture inside ebuilds: the ARCH variable. The ARCH variable is
> set in your respective profile/make.defaults file, and has one of the
> following settings:
>
> x86 Standard PC
> sparc Sparc (32-bit)
> sparc64 Sparc (64-bit)
> ppc PowerPC
>
> You can test and use the ARCH flag in ebuilds as follows:
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> if [ "$ARCH" = "ppc" ]
> then
> foo
> else
> bar
> fi
>
> These changes are 100% backwards compatible and no new Portage version
> is needed to use the new ARCH variable. Appropriate new lines have been
> added to all the current profiles in /usr/portage/profiles, so ARCH is
> ready for use after a cvs update. Enjoy!
>
> Best Regards,
--
Pieter Van den Abeele
pvdabeel@...
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