Re: question about package building
On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> 1. When I run deb-make, it creates a debian/control file with the
> field Architecture set to "any". I have edited this to reflect the
> architecture on which I'm building the package. But I notice that
> only a few of the other debian source packages I've looked at have
> an Architecture field set to anything but "any". Now, I realize
> that packages which are basically scripts might reasonably be
> set to "any", but I don't understand why so many packages with
> compiled programs should be set to "any", since I doubt that many
> of them were actually built with cross-compilers. What's going on here?
The architecture is for those architectures the package CAN be built on.
dpkg-buildpackage understands when you've compiled a source package it is
only for the arch you compiled under. However, most programs can be run
under any arch just by recompiling them. Only a few (bin86 for example)
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