Hi Robert! > > For instance, I have a package that can only build on the following > > architectures: > > > > i386 alpha arm powerpc sparc mips mipsel > > #104688 states that hppa has failed. How do you know that sh can't > build it, though? Or hurd-386[1]? Or an architecture that is not even > known yet? No, in this case listing the architectures is indeed the right way. The package in question is a C library which at the moment only supports the mentioned platforms. I'd have to write quite a bit of code to actually get it to support different platforms as well. -- Regards Abraham court, n.: A place where they dispense with justice. -- Arthur Train ___________________________________________________ Abraham vd Merwe [ZR1BBQ] - The Debian Project P.O. Box 3472, Matieland, Stellenbosch, 7602 Cell: +27 82 565 4451 Email: abz@debian.org Http: http://people.debian.org/~abz/
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