Re: control file question

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
> Hi Julian!
> 
> > > The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but
> > > different cross compilation targets, so I have things like:
> > 
> > Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like:
> > 
> > Build-Depends: libc-arm-version (>=2.1) [arm]
> > 
> > See policy section 7.1 for details.
> 
> I know about that, but that doesn't help since it won't be compiled on that
> host architecture. It's for cross compiling, so for something like
> dietlibc-arm-dev you'll get Build-Depends that differ from dietlibc-dev on
> the _same_ host architecture.

But surely you can determine the packages needeed when
dpkg-buildpackage is run on the various different architectures?  I'm
not sure I understand what the problem is.

   Julian

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