Subject: [alpine-devel] how to skip packages in aports tree and support for eglibc
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:25:40 +0200
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Hi,

Carlo have been working on building an eglibc based alpine and afaik he
has the bootstrapping of the toolchain more or less working.

Now, the question is, how do we handle the build trees?

I think that best would be that we have same tree for all libcs and
archs. Then we could have conditional dependencies, something like:

# dont use libiconv if eglibc
if ! [ "$ALPINE_LIBC" = "eglibc" ]; then
	makedepends="$makedepends libiconv-dev"
fi

Similar we could have conditionals for different arch specifics.

Now, there might be some packages that does not make sense build at all.
For example, we dont want build eglibc on a uclibc system at all since
it doesnt make sense to build it.

The question is how, do we disable it?

Same goes for different arch specific packages. I think for archs we
could in the APKBUILD do something like:

arch="x86 x86_64 mips"

But how do we do with uclibc/eglibc? do we have a separarate libc
variable?

libc="uclibc eglibc"

Alternatively we could keep them in separate branches and do git tricks
to merge the common commits, but I'd prefer have them joined if
possible.

Other ideas?

-nc




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