Dear developers, The attached patch documents the new 'Build-Features: build-arch' control field in dpkg 1.16.1. This is an updated version of a patch already proposed in bug #218893 on 12 Nov 2003. The only change is that Build-Options was renamed to Build-Features by Raphaël Hertzog. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballombe@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
commit bf07f5e259bcb66f5ee583bfc6d8ac966197f627
Author: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>
Date: Wed Jun 8 23:44:12 2011 +0200
Document Build-Features 'build-arch'.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index bb424ed..921190f 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -1971,15 +1971,6 @@
</p>
<p>
- If one or both of the targets <tt>build-arch</tt> and
- <tt>build-indep</tt> are not provided, then invoking
- <file>debian/rules</file> with one of the not-provided
- targets as arguments should produce a exit status code
- of 2. Usually this is provided automatically by make
- if the target is missing.
- </p>
-
- <p>
The <tt>build-arch</tt> and <tt>build-indep</tt> targets
must not do anything that might require root privilege.
</p>
@@ -2614,6 +2605,7 @@ Package: libc6
<item><qref id="f-Section"><tt>Section</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Priority"><tt>Priority</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et al</qref></item>
+ <item><qref id="f-Build-Features"><tt>Build-Features</tt></qref> (optional)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Standards-Version"><tt>Standards-Version</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Homepage"><tt>Homepage</tt></qref></item>
</list>
@@ -3109,6 +3101,19 @@ Package: libc6
</p>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="f-Build-Features">
+ <heading><tt>Build-Features</tt></heading>
+ <p>
+ The syntax is a list of options separated by
+ commas that are implemented in the build process.
+ The following options are defined:
+ <list>
+ <item> <tt>build-arch</tt> The optional targets "build-arch"
+ and "build-indep" are implemented by <tt>debian/rules</tt>
+ as defined in <ref id="debianrules">. </item>
+ </list>
+ </p>
+ </sect1>
<sect1 id="f-Version">
<heading><tt>Version</tt></heading>
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