arch checking on depends_build

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-5-30 09:18 , Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-5-30 09:15 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On May 29, 2010, at 18:10, Joshua Root wrote:
>>> On 2010-5-30 09:05 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> Basically, is there any situation where checking the architecture of a build dependency is known to be necessary?
>>>
>>> Static libs
>>
>> .......I had not thought of that. Damn. :) I retract my objection.
>>
>>> and code generators, to name two.
>>
>> Do you mean like swig, or what would be a code generator?
> 
> GCC is the obvious example.

I'm not opposed to adding a flag that indicates "none of this port's
dependents will ever care about its arch" BTW.

- Josh