On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 11:46 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I have recently asked Scott James Remnant[1] on IRC for comments on this > problem and the proposed solution (#229357), to add Build-Options: > build-arch' to debian/control if the package supported this target. > > I gathered that he was not in favour of it and prompted for alternate > solutions > Yeah; I don't like the idea that you have to declare which particular implementation you have followed -- that's a kludge and prone to many a Murphy attack. We should either fix the implementation (as Wouter suggested) or be intelligent enough to detect which implementation is in use (as I suggested). > Of course all the examples I tried work with both variants. debian-dpkg > does not yield any reference to example that failed during the short > interval build-arch detection was tried. > -q checks for "up to dateness" ... the next time you ran the test, it would fail because build-stamp had been touched and dpkg-buildpackage would incorrectly run build for you instead. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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