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Re: PATCH [1/n]: Initial x32 support
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:
> If what you propose is just sourcing ${srcdir}sysdeps/*/preconfigure before
> ${add_on}/sysdeps/*/preconfigure, then I suppose that is alright. I'm not
Yes, that's what I propose.
> especially convinced it's not more baroque to do that than just to have the
> logic directly in the top-level configure.in. But it does mean that an
> (appropriately disciplined) add-on port becomes an integrated port just by
> adding its files directly the main tree, which is an attractive notion.
Indeed, I think moving ports about should ideally just involve moving
appropriate sets of directories like that.
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