On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 01:19:30AM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > > There's nothing in policy that requires packages to transparently > > allow you to optimize for a subarch. > > But what is the purpose of dpkg-architecture ? In the manpage, I read > dpkg-architecture - set and determine the architecture for > package building Debian does not require maintainers to use all the available tools to their fullest capabilities. Supporting cross-compilation requires extra effort on the part of the maintainer and upstream. > IIRC, some archs have subarchs that *need* specific compilation or > modifications (m68k ?...). How is compilation done with them ? I've never heard of such a debian architecture. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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