Help with debian/rules

[Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam <vaidhy@loonys.net>]

Hi ,

I need to check the host architecture to configure a software. I tried the 
following code snippet, but that does not work. 

ifeq ('$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)','i386')
	use_asm386=yes
else
	use_asm386=no
fi

any ideas ?

Regards,
Vaidhy

PS: The error message I get is :

systax error near ifeq ('i386','i386')
I tried without quotes and that failed too.