Re: [PATCH] kbuild, deb-pkg: support overriding userland architecture

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

hello Asbjoern,

On Sat, 06 Nov 2010, Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen wrote:

> Usefull if building for sparc64 userland, because the
> sparc and sparc64 userlands use the same 64-bit kernel,
> making it impossible to always select the correct userland
> architecture for the resulting debian package.
> 
> Might also be usefull, if you want a i386 userland with a amd64 kernel.
> 
> Example usage:
> 	make DEBARCH=i386 deb-pkg
> 
> This patch is based on my 'kbuild, deb-pkg: select
> userland architecture based on UTS_MACHINE' patch.

care to repost with KBUILD_ prefix, to keep namespace sane and mention
in  Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt together with the relevant acks.
It be really cool to have that in next 2.6.38.

thanks
 
> LKML-reference: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1011051437500.13287@aurora.sdinet.de>
> Signed-off-by: Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen <asbjorn@asbjorn.biz>

Acked-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>