Bug#430649: Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: normal

        Hi,

 In the discussions of bug #209008 (parallel building), Peter Samuelson
 explained he uses comma-separated keywords in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
 Please document how keywords in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS are allowed to be
 separated.
   I find the recommendation of the Make function "findstring" a poor
 one as it will match subwords and will make it harder to introduce new
 keywords (as we will have to ensure the new keywords aren't matched in
 current rules).


 I would personally push for allowing only space separated keywords as
 this makes parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS really easy, especially in
 make.  Peter Samuelson uses commas because it's doesn't impose quoting
 when spawning a build from a shell command-line.

   Bye,

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Loïc Minier