Re: Mandatory support for -nocheck in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Loïc Minier writes ("Re: Mandatory support for -nocheck in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS"):
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > What you mean is that you don't want binaries generated at one point
> > being executed later during the build.  I think it would be better to
> > invent an option `cross' which covered this requirement.
> 
>  Do we really need a new option?  Why not infer this requirement when
>  the build and host arches differ?

Good point.  Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should synthesise it ?

Ian.