Re: Multiple-Architecture Sources
Tor Slettnes <tor@slett.net> writes:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman-debian.devel@debian.org> writes:
> >>>>> "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com> writes:
>
> Brent> I could add logic to uncomment this line automatically, but
> Brent> am not sure what the best way of identifiying the intended
> Brent> build target -- would a call to `uname` be sufficient?
>
> Michael> I usually use identify the architecture with the make
> Michael> snippet:
>
> Michael> ARCH=$(shell dpkg --print-architecture)
>
> That would be a bug, since 'dpkg --print-architecture' depends on
> 'gcc' to work. Use 'dpkg --print-installation-architecture'
> instead.
Uh, no, this is with regards to building stuff, clearly you need gcc
to do that anyway. Far from being a bug, it's actually the Right
thing to do (for cross-compilers).
--
James
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