Re: Bug#216492: FTBFS (unstable/all) missing build-dep

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Graham Wilson <graham@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:22:11PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> It is noteworthy that the split build-arch/build-all seems to be next
>> to useless, as dpkg-buildpackage invokes build (because the former two
>> a optional) and "the build target should depend on those of the
>> targets build-arch and build-indep that are provided in the rules
>> file."

> Why exactly is this? Is this really the correct behavior? Shouldn't
> dpk-buildpackage be invoked using the -B option?

It is, and quoting /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage ...
| -B)	binaryonly=-B; checkbuilddep_args=-B; binarytarget=binary-arch;
[...]
| if [ x$sourceonly = x ]; then
| 	withecho debian/rules build 
| 	withecho $rootcommand debian/rules $binarytarget
| fi
... this invokes debian/rules build

Afaict the reason for this is that build-arch and build-all are
optional targets per policy.
                cu andreas
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