Re: DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg.
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> So, dpkg-buildpackage would call "make debian/whatever" with following
> environments:
Minor glitch - currently, policy doesn't mandate that debian/rules be a
make script (and this is probably a good thing). So, dpkg-buildpackage
should simply execute debian/rules.
> The only drawback I can see: If you do cross compilation, you can't easily
> run "debian/rules target" and expect it to work. You'd need to set the
> variables correctly. However, this is a small price and does only affect
> cross compilation. Currently, cross compilation is not supported at all
> (without major hacks and dpkg-cross), so this is not a big deal. (This is a
> direct consequence from the fact that we don't have a debian/configure,
> similar to GNU configure. GNU configure does not have the problem, because
> it builds the Makefiles before using them. In our case, a default of native
> compilation is hard coded in the rules files, for backward compatibility).
My gut instincts tell me that encouraging people to use dpkg-buildpackage
is *good* since this means we can incorporate future ideas like this one
directly there. We should simply make dpkg-buildpackage more flexible
(so that, for example, in the event you don't want a whole build, you can
specify a target - if we don't already have this functionality).
Jules
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