FPC ticket for building for multiple versions of a language stack?

[John Dulaney]

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> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:18:00 +1000
> Subject: FPC ticket for building for multiple versions of a language stack?
> From: ncoghlan at gmail.com
> To: env-and-stacks at lists.fedoraproject.org
>
> Hi folks,
>
> My Google-fu is failing me, so I'm asking to see if anyone else has
> the relevant link: I recall seeing a proposal a while back (from
> Slavek, IIRC) to support running a spec file multiple times with a
> different target location each time (but still having a default
> location used in a "normal" RPM build).
>
> This wasn't about SCLs, it was about situations like building for
> python 2 + python 3 + pypy + jython, or for the multiple Python 3
> stacks in EPEL. The general idea was that packaging for multiple
> runtimes shouldn't be as difficult as it currently is.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.


Well, why run it multiple times, and instead just set up your spec file
to build different sub-packages against each stack you want to support,
like what is already done for py2 and py3?  Of course, I haven't seen what
you are referring to, so I may be missing out on something brilliant.

John.