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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: BaseTools: handling of $(ARCH) in .dsc/.fdf when multiple -a specified
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On 02/05/19 12:08, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 08:02:55PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:

>> AIUI, "-a IA32 -a X64" it means "build the Components.* sections
>> (plural) as dictated by the '-a' flags, and then organize the full
>> (multi-arch) set of modules into the flash device(s), described by
>> FLASH_DEFINITION".
> 
> Nope, I did spot that actually :)
> Although I was certainly confused the first 10 times I looked at those
> .dscs.
> 
> And it could still be squashed into a common .dsc/.fdf if there was a
> useful way of handling $(ARCH) when multiple -a have been specified to
> the build command.

I agree.

Thanks
Laszlo