Re: build, build-arch and build-indep targets in debian/rules
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 07:22:14AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Buildds call the build target without supplying Build-Depends-Indep.
Well, buildd calls dpkg-buildpackage, so the easiest way would be to
just change dpkg-buildpackage to honor build-arch, IMHO. No need to
change policy for this[1].
> The reason why "build-arch" is not used, if provided, is that it is
> hard to properly detect if a debian/rules file has an build-arch
> target or not.
AFAIK, this is only hard if you do not assume debian/rules is a
Makefile. I am not sure what the current take of the dpkg maintainers is
on this, but I hope they consider changing the behaviour of
dpkg-buildpackage at some point during the next release cycle.
> My proposal is to make the build-arch and build-indep targets
> mandatory in debian/rules so they can be utilised by dpkg-buildpackage
> and through that by debuild, sbuild, pbuilder, uml-builder and
> buildds. Packages that don't have a split build-arch and build-indep
> target (yet) can use the following construct:
>
> build-arch: build
> build-indep: build
AFAICT, your proposal would still mean that the buildds call
'debian/rules build' until after sarge+1 is released as they usually run
stable roots (unless those would get patched).
Which is quite unfortunate, of course.
Michael
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[1] Yeah, policy describes current practise even if it braindead, yada,
yada
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