On 2010/07/31 11:54, patsy wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm running 4.8-beta/amd64 (snapshot) and my src/ports etc
> have just been updated to -current.
>
> I was looking through /usr/ports/Makefile and found that on
> line 84 (when the index is being made) MACHINE_ARCH is set to
> i386.
>
> I was just wondering if somebody could explain why it is set
> to this rather than using ${MACHINE_ARCH} (like when
> running `make pkglocatedb`).
The INDEX file is meant to be the same whatever arch you generate it on.
i386 is used as pretty much everything builds there.
