Re: Committing to a team-maintained package repository
Mattia Rizzolo wrote on 16/07/2018:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 07:56:08PM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote:
>> One last question. Do we actually need these lines:
>>
>> include /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk
>> ifeq ($(origin CC),default)
>> CC := $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)-gcc
>> endif
>>
>> in d/rules?
>> Are they still relevant with Multi-Arch?
>
> They are very relevant with Multi-Arch, the point is that nowadays
> debhelper takes care of them, so they are *usually* not needed anymore.
>
> I recommend you just try to remove the lines and cross build the
> package, but I expect you can safely remove them.
Thanks Mattia, it does indeed cross-compile fine without them.
They are now gone.
> Note that these days cross building is extremely easy with both sbuild
> and pbuilder, you just need to pass --host (for sbuild) or --host-arch
> (for pbuilder), and they took care of everything (ISTR sbuild needs
> another flag to install a foreign package, but that will be easy to find
> out if you use sbuild…).
I had to call sbuild with --add-depends=libc6-dev:<hostarch>, I guess
this is what you were referring to.
I pushed my changes, I think the package is ready to be uploaded.
Paride
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