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Re: build, build-arch and build-indep targets in debian/rules



Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

> On 2004-08-09 Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> in short (full rephrase below) I propose the following change to
>> debian-policy:
>
>> option 1: Make build-arch and build-indep targets mandatory in
>>           debian/rules
>
>> or
>
>> option 2: Add an optional "Build-Targets" line to debian/control.
> [...]
>> Comments, ideas, opionion?
>
> Are you familiar with #218893, which is basically identical to your
> Option 2? The most important thing included there is that dpkg
> maintainance  (I had asked Scott James Remnant[1] on IRC) would rather
> see autodetection of availabilty of optional targets with
> make -f debian/rules -pn | grep '^build-arch:'
>              cu andreas
>
That won't work with systems like CDBS.

Andy
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