Re: Problem with dpkg-architecture

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 07:34:02AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> >>>>> Guy Maor writes:
> 
>  GM> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
>  >> 1) Make "-e" the default.
> 
>  GM> No way!  -e is a horrible argument that makes makefiles break for
>  GM> mysterious reasons.

(Note that dpkg-cross does exactly this, and it seemed to work for years
now, but I agree, it does conflict with concept of least surprise. I don't
want to be responsible for those bugs that crop up).
 
>  GM> You should just arrange for the overrides to be set on the
>  GM> command line.
> 
> I agree with Guy here.

Ah, that's another solution. Thanks for pointing out.

So we will do in dpkg-buildpackage (from top of my head):

debian/rules `dpkg-architecture -a$ARCH`

and people who don't use dpkg-buildpackage (oh my dear!) can do one of the
following:

debian/rules `dpkg-buildpackage -ahurd-i386` build

or

eval `dpkg-architecture -ahurd-i386 -s`
export MAKEFLAGS=-e       # at their responsibility

(I can probably support a flag to dpkg-architecture that sets MAKEFLAGS
variable optionally)

or

dpkg-architecture -a hurd-i386 -m -c "debian/rules build"

where "-m" is a new flag that makes the variables not to be set in an
environment, but passed as make variables.

Note that this solution only requires modification of dpkg-buildpackage and
the way how people can do it manually. I like it. It seems to get easier to
use it directly, and nothing else changes.

Ok, I will make the change to dpkg-buildpackage.

BTW: It is important that people don't use "dpkg --print-arhcitecture" in
there scripts anymore, but "--print-installation-architecture". The first
one has no sane definition for other systems beside Linux. That's the bug in
e2fsprogs that I mentioned. The consequence is that compilation will default
to native building when dpkg-architecture is circumvented (either
directly or when dpkg-buildpackage is not used)

Thanks,
Marcus

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The End and the Means are the same."  -- Craig Sanders

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>