On May 23, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:52:28AM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> On 05/23/14 08:36, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:19:34AM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>>> Is there any chance of finally switching the pkg abi identifiers to just >>>> be uname -p? >>>> -Nathan >>> Keeping asking won't make it happen, I have explained a large number of >>> time why it >>> happened, why it is not easy for compatibility and why uname -p is still not >>> representing the ABI we do support, and what flexibility we need that the >>> current string offers to us. >>> >>> if one is willing to do the work, please be my guess, just dig into the >>> archives >>> and join the pkg development otherwise: no it won't happen before a while >>> because we have way too much work on the todo and this item is stored at the >>> very end of this todo. >>> >>> regards, >>> Bapt >> >> I'm happy to do the work, and have volunteered now many times. If uname >> -p does not describe the ABI fully, then uname -p needs changes on the >> relevant platforms. Which are they? What extra flexibility does the >> string give you if uname -p describes the ABI completely? >> -Nathan > > just simple examples in armv6: > - eabi vs oabi > - The different float abi (even if only one is supported for now others are > being worked on) > - little endian vs big endian All of those are encoded in the MACHINE_ARCH + freebsd version, no exceptions on supported architectures that are tier 2 or higher. This seems like a weak reason. > the extras flexibilit is being able to say this binary do support freebsd i386 > and amd64 in one key, freebsd:9:x86:*, or or all arches freebsd:10:* Will there be a program to convert this new, special invention to the standard that we’ve used for the past 20 years? If you need the flexibility, which I’m not entirely sure I’ve seen a good use case for. When would you have a x86 binary package? Wouldn’t it be either i386 or amd64? Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"