Re: dpkg-buildpackage vendor hook for environment variable changes?

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Colin Watson wrote:
> How about something like this:
> 
>   =item default-build-flags ($flags)
> 
>   The first parameter is a reference to a hash of environment variable
>   names to their default values. The hook is called by dpkg-buildpackage
>   immediately before setting default values in the environment.
> 
> The hook implementation could then be something like:
> 
>     my $flags = shift @params;
>     $flags->{LDFLAGS} = '-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions';
> 
> If this makes sense to people, I can put together a patch.

Yeah, I'm fine with this until we settle on something more definitive.

In other words this hook might not last long in this form but
I would apply it anyway until we come to a conclusion in
the discussion concerning how the default flags are communicated
to the packages.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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