Re: Build-Depend'ing on libasound2-dev just for Linux

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Lawrence Williams a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I am working on a package that Build-Depends on libasound2-dev, but can be 
> built on non-Linux OSs. Is there any way to shape the Build-Dep so that 
> libasound2-dev is only used if we are building for a Linux system?
>
> I seen an example of a possible choice in xorg-x11 packages that Build-Dep on 
> linux-kernel-headers, but I wasn't sure if I should follow their example:
>
> linux-kernel-headers (>= 2.6.13+0rc3-1.1) 
> [!hurd-i386 !netbsd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386]
>
> In Debian, does this prevent it from building on anything other than Linux??

Currently this is the solution. In the future, dpkg should support 
build-depencies like [linux-any] or [any-i386]. See the bug #291939. I 
hope this support will be available soon.

Bye,
Aurelien

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