BSD.PORT.ARCH.MK(5)

NAME
bsd.port.arch.mk - ports tree Makefile fragment, concerned with arch issues

SYNOPSIS

    # Set up such as
    MULTI_PACKAGES = -main -special
    ONLY_FOR_ARCHS-special = i386

.include <bsd.port.arch.mk>

    #some more lines such as
    .if ${BUILD_PACKAGES:M-special}
    CONFIGURE_ARGS += --enable-special
    .endif

.include <bsd.port.mk>

DESCRIPTION
bsd.port.arch.mk holds the logic used for arch-dependent builds in the ports tree. It is normally included as part of the larger bsd.port.mk(5), but it is also available separately for ports that require it.

•   multi-packages ports that need to remove some subpackages based on pseudo-flavors or architecture constraints.

•   ports that need to make explicit tests on arch-dependent constants.

bsd.port.arch.mk assumes the following variables are already defined:
MULTI_PACKAGES
FLAVOR
FLAVORS
PSEUDO_FLAVORS
NOT_FOR_ARCHS[-<sub>]
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS[-<sub>]
and optionally, if the default won't be appropriate
NO_SHARED_LIBS
IGNORE[-<sub>]

It will set up the following variables for use in the rest of the Makefile:
ARCH
ALL_ARCHS
APM_ARCHS
BE_ARCHS
COMPILER_VERSION
GCC2_ARCHS
GCC3_ARCHS
GCC4_ARCHS
LE_ARCHS
LP64_ARCHS
NO_SHARED_ARCHS
NO_SHARED_LIBS
PROPERTIES
IGNORE-<sub>
BUILD_PACKAGES

Most importantly, BUILD_PACKAGES will be correctly set up, taking ONLY_FOR_ARCHS[-<sub>] and NOT_FOR_ARCHS[-<sub>] limitations into account, as well as pseudo-flavors.

Note that thanks to the way make(1) variables are evaluated, a setup such as

    ONLY_FOR_ARCHS-foo = ${LP64_ARCHS}
    .include <bsd.port.arch.mk>

is perfectly admissible, since ONLY_FOR_ARCHS-foo will be used only after LP64_ARCHS is defined.

Also, you do not need to explicitly include bsd.port.arch.mk just to define

    ONLY_FOR_ARCHS = ${LP64_ARCHS}

since bsd.port.mk does define arch constants before evaluating ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. A more detailed description of each variable is available in bsd.port.mk(5).

All the constant values ARCH, ALL_ARCHS, COMPILER_VERION, GCC2_ARCHS, GCC3_ARCHS, GCC4_ARCHS, LP64_ARCHS, NO_SHARED_ARCHS and PROPERTIES are also available from MODULES and from ${.CURDIR}/../Makefile.inc. Note that due to historical accident, NO_SHARED_LIBS is not such a constant. Test PROPERTIES to assert whether a given platform supports shared libraries.

SEE ALSO
bsd.port.mk(5)

HISTORY
bsd.port.arch.mk was split from bsd.port.mk(5) in OpenBSD 5.1.