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dragonajie

Member

From: Dragonmount, near the Isle of

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 32

What changes building packages from AUR?

Guys,

I'm trying to get some things from AUR and have no idea if anything at all needs to be changed in the PKGBUILDs. In the wiki it seems like we need to put

arch=(i686 x86_64)

tag in the PKGBUILD to compile a package for 64-bit? OTOH i seem to recall someone saying that we don't need to do anything at all.

i normally use qpkg for building packages from AUR.

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: What changes building packages from AUR?

I don't have any 64 bits system but I would say that most packages won't need any modifications.  The use of:
arch=(i686 x86_64)
is just there to inform that the PKGBUILD is known to work for both architectures.

espo

Member

From: Stuttgart - Germany

Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 74

Re: What changes building packages from AUR?

at first you have to try if it compiles with makepkg if not you have to search the web for a solution. And if you found one you have to edit the PKGBUILD.
Thats the normal way of "porting" packages to arch64.

Greetings
eSpo