Re: debian/rules and environment variables

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

Hi,

> On a related note, I'm thinking that *all* packages using ./configure
> should be using:
> DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
> DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
> ...
> ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
>  ...
> 
> This then allows cross-builders to simply call dpkg-architecture to set
> the correct environment and ./configure will do the right thing.

What about packages which do not use configure?
Are there any rules to follow, especially if you need to pass CC and
other options to upstream's build system, which is just a bunch of
Makefiles in this case. Although I doubt that anybody would
cross-compile this package, I'd appreciate some general hints.


Thanks,

Bernd

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Bernd Zeimetz
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