[MTOOLCHAINS-14] Toolchains should support architecture definition

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Gordon Pettey opened MTOOLCHAINS-14 and commented

Toolchains should support an <arch> element in <provides> to allow defining multiple architecture JVMs of the same version. This would help support simple testing of native library code that needs a matching JVM. Possible workaround is to specify a different version for each additional arch, but the extra element would be nicer.

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Robert Scholte commented

This is actually already supported. What happens is that the maven-toolchain-plugin searches for a match based on the configuration-elements. Right now it does String matching for all elements, except for <version/> (so it can decide which is the closest matching version).
So you can add your own elements if you like for the matching.
However, if the arch-value should be used depends on the plugin using toolchains, e.g. the maven-compiler-plugin.

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Gordon Pettey commented

That is what I tried, but it did not work. It does work right now on my home machine, though, with the same maven version. I will try to reproduce tomorrow and update this bug.

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Gordon Pettey commented

Sorry, thIs was PEBKAC. It works as it should when I don't have spurious characters in my file.