On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:17:19AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: > >Yes, but the point was that mainteners get a warning from the > >regular build system that their package is not cross-compile friendly. > >That needs to hook into dpkg-buildpackage then, I'm afraid... > Please don't do this. Some packages choose to not be cross-compilation > friendly instead of carrying around an enormous diff for full > relibtoolisation or similar. I've generally had more trouble with > passing --target and --host than not, but I don't use cross-compilation, > so I might be biased. Well, you shouldn't pass --host *except* when cross-compiling; the autotools-dev package shows how to do this. But at least --build is always a sane thing to specify, and usually saves you from upstreams optimizing for the wrong architecture based on config.guess... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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