Re: question about package building
On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
sgk >1. When I run deb-make, it creates a debian/control file with the
sgk >field Architecture set to "any". I have edited this to reflect the
sgk >architecture on which I'm building the package. But I notice that
sgk >only a few of the other debian source packages I've looked at have
sgk >an Architecture field set to anything but "any". Now, I realize
sgk >that packages which are basically scripts might reasonably be
sgk >set to "any", but I don't understand why so many packages with
sgk >compiled programs should be set to "any", since I doubt that many
sgk >of them were actually built with cross-compilers. What's going on here?
"any" means the package can potentially be build on any platform. I.e. the
source code is not i386 specific.
sgk >2. In the [good, old] days, I used to run
sgk > dpkg --print-architecture
sgk >in order to assure that the architecutre for a package was set correctly.
sgk >Why doesn't deb-make do this too?
Because "any" will be replaced by the correct architecture when you build
the package. Do a "debc" and see.
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