Bug#94127: debian/rules2 contains Linuxism

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:19:37AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> Is the ulimit critical to the test suite?  If not, can you wrap the 'awk' and
> 'ulimit' lines with 
> 
> ifneq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),hurd-i386)
>          m=`awk '/^((Mem|Swap)Free|Cached)/{m+=$$2}END{print int(m*.9)}' \
>                /proc/meminfo`; \
>          ulimit -m $$m; 
> endif
> 
> You may want to approach this a different way, since this makes "Linux" the
> norm, and "Hurd" the deviant.  It would probably be better to test if
> the DEB_HOST_ARCH were a member of the "Linux" family.  I don't know a
> good way to do this (Please let me know if you do, it will be useful to
> me elsewhere!)

How about:

ifneq ($(findstring linux,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)),)
	echo linux
else
	echo not linux
endif

Of course, the way to sell this is because it avoids potential
bugs when someone does hurd-powerpc, not because of any lack of
deviance on the hurd's part.  We all know how deviant the Hurd
is... =) =)





dave...