Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:13:16 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optional patching Message-ID: <20071219201316.1c305f7a@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20071219191306.GC36016@atarininja.org> References: <4D1AAAB26DADCFB11343F6B3@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <47693FE9.20701@gahr.ch> <41364CD63DE952CCB8602A44@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20071219191306.GC36016@atarininja.org>
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:13:06 -0500
Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> wrote:
> I don't think it matters really, but is probably a matter of personal
> preference. The only problem with using an option that I see is that
> if the user has no idea if (s)he is on a 64bit platform and turns the
> option off. It's for this reason I'd suggest using the .if ${ARCH}
> approach.
I would have thought that the ".if ${ARCH}" method was the only
sensible way of doing it. Packages are built without any options set.
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