On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:43:34 -0800 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes: > > Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > > >> This is a bad suggestion and was apparently made without referring to > >> the existing Debian instructions for how to handle packages that use > >> Autoconf and friends. > > > Your assumption is wrong, I'm afraid. For one reason or another, I spend > > a lot of time in the autofoo documentation. Must be crazy, yes, yes.... > > Well, then I'm even more mystified as to why you contradicted those > instructions and told people not to pass --build to configure for > non-cross-compile builds. So it is preferable for me to add --build to native builds even in a patch that is meant to only affect the cross build? I'm sure some maintainers will query why I'm setting --build outside the crossbuild. If that is how it is to be done then that is OK with me - I was just trying to keep the patch to the basic cross build requirements. After all, I see a mass bug filing as almost an NMU on each package - change as little as necessary. > > Actually, /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz differs from > > that by specifying $(confflags) instead of SYSTEM and using 'export'. > > Sorry, you're entirely correct, and I shouldn't paste from one of my > packages instead of from the actual documentation. (And I should go add > export, as that was there for a reason. Mea culpa.) No problem. What is the reason for 'export' ? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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