Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
>
> I actually had to start learning perl for this but I guess it had to
> happen once anyway, so...
Thanks, please forward this to the maintainer of kernel-package.
> You probably want to set the HOSTCC and CC variables in make-kpkg itself,
> not in debian/rules (as I've done). That way they are passed on to every
> target through ${MAKE} (and this is probably why setting on the
> commandline works, while environment variables don't). I 've set them to
> sane (?) defaults if CC and HOSTCC are not exported in the environment.
> Also, dpkg --print-architecture (used in debian/rules) depends on gcc or
> $CC, OTOH it produces an error if the word count of $CC > 1, so I passed
> on $HOSTCC to it (which *should* be just the name of the compiler -maybe
> you could add a check?).
This is arguably a bug in dpkg since the upstream kernel actually sets
CC to include certain options.
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