Re: Building for more than one host architecture

["Tony Carter, MIT Bates Linac" <CARTER@AESIR.MIT.EDU>]

Nick Rees writes:
>I thought the answer to your point was to move any host dependent
>definitions from CONFIG_SITE to CONFIG_SITE.Unix.<arch> (i.e the host
>dependent file already exists, and I wouldn't like creating a new
>one. It is also global so can be under the same CVS control).
>
>So, in your case, in CONFIG_SITE you would put:
>
>HOST_ARCH = $(shell HostArch)
>
>and possibly (but not necessarily - it could be omitted) a default of
>
>BUILD_ARCH = $(HOST_ARCH)
>
>However, in CONFIG_SITE.Unix.sun4 (or whatever), you would put:
>
>BUILD_ARCH = $(HOST_ARCH) mv167...
>
>or, more perversely, (i.e. I am not sure whether it will work), if you
>only wanted to build the IOC tools on this host architecture.
>
>BUILD_ARCH = mv167.
>
>This would override any definition in CONFIG_SITE, because
>CONFIG_SITE.Unix.<arch> is processed after CONFIG_SITE but before
>RULES_ARCHS, which is the only place it is used.

Yes, sorry for not paying closer attention to your original post.  I think
this works out well.  Thanks for everyone's input.

Tony