Changeset 132e0fa for final-system/multilib

Timestamp:

Aug 21, 2006, 10:52:10 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>

Children:

6ef435c

Parents:

793258c

Message:

Added a description to what purpose the multilib wrapper has.

File:

• final-system/multilib/perl-64bit.xml (modified) (1 diff)

final-system/multilib/perl-64bit.xml

@@ -157 +157 @@
   </sect2>
 
+    <para os="p">This multilib wrapper makes it possible to build perl
+    extensions other then 64bit. The PERL_ARCH enviornment variable controls
+    which perl binary to execute. Some packages that may attempt to build
+    against perl will run <command>perl -V:cc</command> to get the command
+    that was used to build perl. If you're building a 32bit extension but you
+    only have a 64bit perl this is not desired. By setting PYTHON_ARCH=32 you
+    will beable to build the 32bit extension because
+    <command>perl -V:cc</command> will return the command used to build the
+    32bit perl installation.
+
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
   href="../common/perl.xml"