Re: Bug#41232: AMENDMENT 1999-07-23 FINAL DRAFT] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

[Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>]

> No. The dpkg-architecture terminology may confuse you. Here's from
> Packaging Manual 3.0.1.0 section 3.2.1 (debian/rules - the main
> building script): "... BUILD for specification of the build machine
> or HOST for specification of the machine we build for. "

Hmm... it guess I was confused by the GNU parlance:

  build : arch of the machine we build *on*
  host  : arch we build the program for (i.e., on which it runs later)
  target: arch for which the program runs (different from host in case
          of cross-compilers or the like)

But we don't want to cross-compile cross-compilers, I guess, so we
always have host == target.

But I see what you mean: If we consider cross-compiling of Debian
packages, some src-deps are needed for the build arch and some (libs
and -dev packages) for the host arch.

But this obviously leads too far...

Roman