Bug#141307: PROPOSAL] Finish the build-{arch,indep} stuff
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 12:00:26AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:30:12AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > `Build-Depends', `Build-Conflicts'
> > > The `Build-Depends' and `Build-Conflicts' fields must be
> > > satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked: `build',
> > > - `binary', `binary-arch' and `binary-indep'.
> > > + `build-arch', `build-indep', `binary', `binary-arch' and
> > > + `binary-indep'.
> > Actually, it turns out that bug #72335 (accepted) already contained
> > this, but that I didn't actually implement it in policy. So I'm going
> > to add it after woody is released ('cos policy is frozen). But in the
> > meantime, autobuilders would do well to use Build-Depends-Indep fields
> > as well when running the build target (which is the main significant
> > change here).
>
> Uh, surely it'd need to be:
>
> If you make "binary-arch" you need Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Arch
> If you make "binary-indep" you need Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep
> If you make "binary" you need all three
>
> Which means autobuilders would need to use Build-Depends-Arch not
> Build-Depends-Indep.
Not quite:
If you make "build-arch" or "binary-arch", you need Build-Depends.
If you make "build-indep" or "binary-indep", you need Build-Depends
and Build-Depends-Indep.
If you make "build" or "binary", you need both.
There is no Build-Depends-Arch; the autobuilders will only need the
Build-Depends if they know how to build only build-arch and
binary-arch. Anyone building the build-indep/binary-indep targets is
basically assumed to be building the whole package and so installs all
build dependencies.
The purpose of the original split, I recall, was so that the
autobuilders wouldn't need to install extra packages needed only for
the binary-indep targets. But without a build-arch/build-indep split,
this didn't work, since most of the work is done in the build target,
not in the binary target.
Julian
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