Re: Environment variables, debian/rules and dpkg-buildpackage
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> >
> > ... and pretty please, do not choose a solution that will require
> > adding an "-include" to 15'000 thousands debian/rules; we will finish
> > doing that by Lenny+50, the earliest.
>
> It would take some time, yes; but packages using cdbs would only require a
> binNMU once cdbs includes that file on its own.
BinNMU are not needed. The default CFLAGS won't have changed. A rebuild to
verify that none are FTBFS would be enough.
> IMO this is what looks like The Right Solution; are we willing to ignore it
> just because it would take some time?
I don't know your criteria for "The Right Solution", so this opinion
doesn't buy me much.
> What other approach (which fulfils all the pros already mentioned by Manoj)
> do you suggest?
What are the pros mentioned by Manoj that are specific to the Makefile
snippet approach except the fact that we can continue to call debian/rules
directly on all packages ?
At this point, I have the feeling it's a matter of individual taste
mainly. Every time we have accepted that we have ended up with 2 different
approachs (python-support vs python-central) and we have not won much.
Is there a way to reconcile both approaches ?
Maybe this one: we let the caller pass the required build options as
environment variables or command line options but the package maintainer
has the possibility to include a Makefile snippet that would set
any missing build-option to the default value chosen by the distribution
so that he can continue to call debian/rules directly without having to
take care of setting the environment variables.
Such a Makefile snippet could then be like this:
CFLAGS ?= -Wall -g
ifeq "$(origin CFLAGS)" "file"
ifneq (,$(filter noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
CFLAGS += -O0
else
CFLAGS += -O2
endif
endif
How does that sound ?
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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