Closed zmughal closed 1 year ago
(aside) I am 100% sure that the CI fail in 5.37 has nothing to do with this PR (and probably new ALIEN_DOWNLOAD_RULE setting that is in use in CI), and I will follow up on that.
Maybe also useful:
I'm happy for these to be a later PR.
CPU count
Adds a pure Perl implementation for checking the number of available CPUs.
I have not yet added support for this to
::Build::Make
, but I can see adding the appropriate flag (e.g.,-j
) being enabled automatically (which will sometimes show upstream bugs if the upstream that is being built does not specify dependencies properly)CPU arch name
Detects the most common architectures and maps them to common names (roughly the names of Debian ports). I'm leaving room for possible future extensions such as adding ARM versions as another property if needed.
Leaving out
mips
,mipsel
,mips64el
,ppc64el
,s390x
for now as I rarely see pre-compiled binaries for those distributed now.I decided against adding GPU/integrated graphics hardware vendor/capabilities detection (e.g., Nvidia CUDA) as that is more involved and not every package needs that. I'll create a separate distribution for that.