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Bug#94127: debian/rules2 contains Linuxism



On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:57:47AM -0700, David Schleef wrote:

> > 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

Excellent!  I just noticed that ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM), linux)
appears in rules2 as well.

> 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... =) =)

<giggle>  Caught red-handed. ;)

Thanks for your help!

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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