Re: ./configure in debian/rules
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:
> Pjotr Kourzanov <peter.kourzanov@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> In a number of packages (e.g., busybox, dash and many more) the
>> debian/rules Makefile calls ./configure without --host argument. This
>> makes the life quite difficult for cross-compilation - for every
>> such package I need to add --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) to every
>> configure invocation in debian/rules.
> Were can I read up on how and why I should do this? AFAIR, the policy
> mentions this variable in the section about debian/rules, but does not
> make their use mandatory.
Hm, I've only been doing this in packages that use AC_CANONICAL_HOST. Is
there benefit to doing this even with packages that don't care at all
about the system type and don't even include config.guess and config.sub
in the source package?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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