[yocto] A question about PACKAGE_ARCH renaming

[Samuel Stirtzel]

2012/4/17 Samuel Stirtzel <s.stirtzel at googlemail.com>:
> 2012/4/17 Xu, Dongxiao <dongxiao.xu at intel.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am testing beagleboard with RPM, and there is a question I am confused
>> with that PACKAGE_ARCH is renamed for certain packages. For example the
>> "acl" package, whose expected PACKAGE_ARCH is "armv7a-vfp-neon", however
>> in RPM file, the arch is renamed to "armv7a", see
>> "acl-2.2.51-r2.armv7a.rpm". However IPK package still shows
>> "acl_2.2.51-r2_armv7a-vfp-neon.ipk".
>>
>> Could anybody give hint on this?
>
> Hi,
> if applications need to be machine / hardware specific they can
> indicate so by setting PACKAGE_ARCH.
>
> For example I use it for recipes that build different when other
> machine dependent packages are used by them:
> kde-workspace can use the OpenGL ES driver which is machine dependent
> so if it is used I set PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}".
>
> AFAIK the vfp-neon arch indicates that the package uses hard float (or
> "vector floating point") libraries instead of soft float.
> See mfloat-abi at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/ARM-Options.html
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dongxiao
>>
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> --
> Regards
> Samuel

Ah sorry i misread your post,
don't know about the renaming details.

Sending mails before the first coffee is bad :(,
sorry for the noise.

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Regards
Samuel