Sevan Janiyan wrote:
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> On 12/10/2015 16:30, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > You have failed to explain the usage case; I don't believe there is
> > any scenario where people benefit from more architecture divergence.
>
> As an example, in pkgsrc, CPUs architectures are grouped under a common
> alias so they can be addressed once rather than addressing each variant
> individually amongst all the supported architectures eg if {OPSYS} ==
> "x86_64" rather than {OPSYS} == "x86_64" || {OPSYS} == "amd64"
> There are some situations where OpenBSD is specifically accounted for
> but if it was possible to override the MACHINE_ARCH definition, it would
> not need to be addressed specifically & any such cases could be removed.
But this doesn't make sense. param.h tells you what the arch, not the other
way around. if you already know what the arch, such that you think you want to
override param.h, just don't include or look at param.h. you already have the
answer you want.
