Bug#613046: debian-policy: please update example in 4.9.1 (debian/rules and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Severity: minor
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Hey
The example in 4.9.1 suggests to set CFLAGS in a way that completely
overrides values from dpkg-buildpackage/dpkg-buildflags[1]:
CFLAGS = -Wall -g
This will set CFLAGS to "-Wall -g" regardless of what dpkg-buildflags
provides. Possible alternatives that appears to work are:
CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -Wall -g
CFLAGS = $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS) -Wall -g
While related to #578597, I believe it to be a distinct issue. This was triggered
by this email[2] on debian-mentors.
Thank you in advance,
~Niels
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules-options
[2] <4D565FCD.8030605@climbing.nl>
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
debian-policy depends on no packages.
debian-policy recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
pn doc-base <none> (no description available)
- -- no debconf information
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