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Re: Current SVN is broken on x86_64


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Current SVN is broken on x86_64
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:11:23 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 08:51:25AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 11:16 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > Furthermore, I had a look and some of the x86_64 versions are just stubs 
> > that
> > include the i386 one.
> > 
> > Why don't we handle this like Linux?  They ship a single directory and use
> > #ifdefs where appropiate.  That enforces consistency in the dir layout.
> 
> I think we can do it.  i386 and x86_64 could be joined into one "x86"
> architecture with common headers and sources.  Perhaps the users should
> still use i386 and x86_64 in configure, but the code should be mostly
> common.

Ok, but I think the i386->x86 rename would be overkill.  We're already using
i386/ headers on x86_64 (for example, when building util/ stuff in grub-pc). It
doesn't hurt if we continue doing that IMHO.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
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