[csw-maintainers] please review gdb's recipe; catalog and ISA issues

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Am 26.07.2012 um 08:46 schrieb pfelecan at opencsw.org:
>> I have 2 issues with the newly released gdb package:
> …
>> 2. this being my first GAR multiple ISA package I am a little bit lost:
>> 
>>    For example, in the i386 package, there are binaries in /opt/csw/bin
>>    and in /opt/csw/bin/amd64. However, they are "regular" binaries, i.e.,
>>    without a mechanism to select the corresponding ISA when executed.
>
> Yes, the default mode when using extra ISAs is manual selection of binaries.
> You can use
>   ISAEXEC = 1
> to turn on automatic execution of the "best" binary, here all binaries are
> confined to their arch subdirectories and the one in bin/sbin/libexec is
> a hardlink to isaexec.
>
> Other options like alternatives have also been discussed, but are unsuitable
> most of the time.

Thank you.

I'm choosing the ISAEXEC = 1 path as it's similar with what I delivered
in the previous package.

-- 
Peter