merge for universal builds (was: Re: [31954] trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl)

[Markus Weissmann]

Sorry, the URL for the wiki page was missing; here it is:

[1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/UniversalDevelopment


On Dec 14, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Markus Weissmann wrote:

> ...

>> Granted we need more universal support in base, but we should  
>> coordinate things amongst ourselves, not duplicate effort, and not  
>> create different ways of doing the same thing.
>>
>
> The problem is, we do not know yet how to best build the non-trivial  
> cases. The "merge" idea is only one piece for getting universal  
> support for more universal-resistant ports; others are using  
> emulators, different architecture build machines, etc.
>
> If there are more people interested in working on this, we should  
> definitely coordinate. I've started a wiki page [1] including a list  
> of interested developers -- which is currently very short ;) (if  
> this group is getting very large, we'll get a mailing list for it)
>
> As soon as I find some spare time, I'll add the results of our GSoC  
> research on how post-destroot merge works (and what is missing) and  
> where more investigation is necessary (e.g. emulation)
>

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