Bug#604397: Request for TC to rule on a course of action for supporting build-arch

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 02:15:37AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>  1) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place of
>     'debian/rules build' by checking for the presence of the target using
>     'make -qn'.[1]
> 
>  2) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' with a fallback
>     to 'debian/rules build' by checking whether the output of the build-arch
>     target matches that of a dummy target.[2]
> 
>  3) Implement support for calling 'debian/rules build-arch' in place of
>     'debian/rules build' if a Build-Options field is set in debian/control
>     of the source package specifying that this target is supported.[3]

For the record, I have been working to the patch that implement 3) to get accepted,
see bug #229357.

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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