Re: Help with debian/rules

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:24:05AM -0500, Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
> systax error near ifeq ('i386','i386')
> I tried without quotes and that failed too.

Use make variables:

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


Note the endif instead fi!

Marcus

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