Re: atari800, svgalib, and non-i386 architectures

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 09:10:46AM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I guess I was actually asking if 'dpkg --print-architecture' is the
> > best way to determine the build arch. If this will work reliably, I can
> > simply not build the svgalib component on any but the i386 arch.
> > 
> 
> Nah, this is the usual way:
> 
> # see dpkg-architecture(8)
> DEB_BUILD_ARCH          := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH)
> 
> The just check $(DEB_BUILD_ARCH) == i386.

Thanks, I knew about this, but had some ancient memory of discussions
around one of these being more reliable than the other, and didn't
remember which one ;-)

Appreciate the help,

Dwarf
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