Re: [RFC] Package build time config for installation directories.
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:16:38AM -0500, Itai Zukerman wrote:
>
> The proposal makes perfect sense, I just have one concern: I see that
> dpkg-buildpackage takes an architecture flag, but I don't think
> there's a way to specify a "system type" (i386-hurd, for example). If
> I want to put stuff in /usr/local, should I do i386-linuxlocal, and
> how? I think it would be nice to:
>
> dpkg-buildpackage --system-type i386-linuxlocal
>
> (or something). And, if that's the case, probably the system type
> should be part of the deb (the Architecture field)?
It's more complicated. Actually you can specifyu -ti386-gnu to
dpkg-buildpackage, but it will be mapped to -ahurd-i386. The Debian
Architecture system currently only allows a fixed number of *distinct*
architectures. A rough proposal how to change this was written by me (which
uses dependencies to reflect architecture requirements).
I think it is a bad idea to confuse path's with GNU system types and
architectures. It is entirely orthogonal. Please don't mix them up.
i386-linuxlocal doesn't make any sense at all. The only connection is that
sometimes to mix architectures (32/64 bit systems) you need to specify
different default paths.
> PS. I'm not very familiar with the build process, so maybe this makes
> no sense. Also, is it possible to compile hurd packages on linux
> build machines?
You can sometimes cross compile (-ahurd-i386) if you have i386-gnu-gcc
installed, a hurd partition with libs and headers mounted on /gnu, and the
package is prepared for it.
Thanks,
Marcus
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