which host builds what

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

I'm still confused by what builds which packages.

I am trying to build gnustep-make, so that I can upload it for the first 
time. Also I want to test my packages on solaris 9, maybe I am lucky (I 
know they can build with some kicking on solaris 8...)

I issue:

mgar spotless && mgar platforms



If I log into unstable9s
SunOS unstable9s 5.9 Generic_Virtual sun4u sparc 
SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220

I see the following log:

<...>

# Checkpkg suggests adding the following lines to the GAR recipe:
# This is a summary; see above for details.
ARCHALL_CSWgnustep-make = 1

gmake: Leaving directory '/home/rmottola/opencsw/gnustep-make/trunk'
Connection to unstable10x closed.

The following packages have been built during this invocation:

* Platform solaris10-sparc (built on host 'unstable10s')
   CSWgnustep-make 
/home/rmottola/pkgs/gnustep_make-2.6.6,REV=2014.09.16-SunOS5.10-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

* Platform solaris10-i386 (built on host 'unstable10x')
   CSWgnustep-make 
/home/rmottola/pkgs/gnustep_make-2.6.6,REV=2014.09.16-SunOS5.10-i386-CSW.pkg.gz



why does it build two packages, on other two machines? and not "itself"? 
How do I generate the sparc 9 package (and x86 package) ?

Is the mgar tool somehow "smart" and does a grid build? and how do I 
tell it what to? not all combination may be working.

Riccardo