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On 7/23/14, 12:10 PM, Alan Barrett wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
Attached is the proposed diff to build.sh with the changes, including
hpcarm -> MACHINE_ARCH=earmv4 .
This patch introduces many cases in which the same
MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH pair is listed under more than one ALIAS. I
don't see the point of that.
To forestall complaints of the form, "the name I used to use no longer
works, and it's not clear what new one I should use."
Aliases are primarily useful as a shorthand for people who run
build.sh, and such people can be expected to adapt to changed alias
names or changed defaults, without needing both old and new alias
names to refer to identical MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH pairs.
OK, aliases are also usable with kver(8) from pkgsrc/devel/libkver,
which contains a cut and pasted copy of the part of build.sh that
deals with MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH/ALIAS parsing, but kver uses are so
specialised that I don't think we need backward compatible aliases
there either.
For example, in this list ...
-MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=arm ALIAS=evbarm-el DEFAULT
-MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=armeb ALIAS=evbarm-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=arm ALIAS=evboarm-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=armeb ALIAS=evboarm-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earm ALIAS=evbarm-el DEFAULT
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earm ALIAS=evbearm-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmeb ALIAS=evbarm-eb
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmeb ALIAS=evbearm-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmhf ALIAS=evbarmhf-el
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmhf ALIAS=evbearmhf-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmhfeb ALIAS=evbarmhf-eb
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmhfeb ALIAS=evbearmhf-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv4 ALIAS=evbarmv4-el
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv4 ALIAS=evbearmv4-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv4eb ALIAS=evbarmv4-eb
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv4eb ALIAS=evbearmv4-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv5 ALIAS=evbarmv5-el
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv5 ALIAS=evbearmv5-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv5eb ALIAS=evbarmv5-eb
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv5eb ALIAS=evbearmv5-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv6 ALIAS=evbarmv6-el
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv6 ALIAS=evbearmv6-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv6hf ALIAS=evbarmv6hf-el
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv6hf ALIAS=evbearmv6hf-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv6eb ALIAS=evbarmv6-eb
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv6eb ALIAS=evbearmv6-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv6hfeb ALIAS=evbarmv6hf-eb
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv6hfeb ALIAS=evbearmv6hf-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv7 ALIAS=evbarmv7-el
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv7 ALIAS=evbearmv7-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv7eb ALIAS=evbarmv7-eb
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv7eb ALIAS=evbearmv7-eb
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv7hf ALIAS=evbarmv7hf-el
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv7hf ALIAS=evbearmv7hf-el
+MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv7hfeb ALIAS=evbarmv7hf-eb
MACHINE=evbarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv7hfeb ALIAS=evbearmv7hf-eb
... I'd keep the new ALIAS=evbearm* and remove the old ALIAS=evbarm*
lines, not provide both.
This ^^^ is actually why I have two aliase, because I personally would
keep the evbarm* style ones (since that's the port name) while removing
the evbearm* style ones, now that earm is the default.
That said, if people don't care about aliases, I can remove them.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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