[csw-maintainers] Discovering 32/64 differences in shared files (pre-merge)

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 27.05.2013 um 14:44 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
> During the merge phase, GAR rewrites paths so that the binary files are nicely sorted to subdirectories, and it takes platform-independent files from the first modulation, under the assumption that they're the same for all platforms.
> 
> But sometimes they really aren't.
> 
> Do we have a tool which inspects the DESTDIR directories for 32/64-bit modulations and verifies that the files are in fact the same?
> 
> If not, would anyone be up for writing such a tool? It would be really useful for us, for the whole project.

In fact we talked about that during the last camp and Igor suggested to
always add include-merging with automatic 32/64 selection similar to what
we have for curl right now with "diff -D". We should also use the
opportunity to factor out the merging from GAR and enhance modularization.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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