Re: Conditionally applying an architecture-dependent patch

["Shaun Jackman" <sjackman@gmail.com>]

On 11/28/06, Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr> wrote:
>  If you use simple-patchsys, you can prepend before any "include" line:
>   ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),m68k)
>   DEB_PATCHDIRS = debian/patches debian/patches/$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)
>   endif
>  to add debian/patches/m68k to the list of directories with patches to
>  apply.
>
>  Obviously, this can be adapted for many use cases, and different patch
>  orders.

I like the simplicity of this approach. I settled on the following:

alpha := 64
amd64 := 64
ia64 := 64
DEB_PATCHDIRS = debian/patches/$($(DEB_HOST_ARCH))
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk

Thanks for your help,
Shaun