On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:57:59AM +0100, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras wrote: > This confused me for a moment (in fact I wondered if it shouldn't be > the other way around), because I naively misunderstood the meaning of > "build" (as in the architecture for which to build) and "host" (as in > the host I'm building on), but after looking it up [1] it makes a lot > more sense ;)
You're not the only one who is confused by the terminology. Over time, one can get used to it. > Out of curiosity: That patch works because in a cross compilation CC > will f.e. be aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc because that is set via the included > /usr/share/dpkg/buildtools.mk, right? Correct explanation. dh_auto_build will also set CC, but not dh_auto_install (which is the relevant part here). > Initially I contemplated including /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk and > somehow using DEB_TARGET_GNU_TYPE, but your patch seems much cleaner, > so thanks a lot! Rule of thumb: target is never right tool (unless you know it is). > Since this actually issue came up [2] some time ago upstream and the > $(CC) bit could go there, do you want to submit this part of the patch > or should I do this (preserving your authorship of course!)? Yes please (regardless of the authorship). Let's just make it work. To me this is one in >2000 patches. A drop in the bucket. Helmut
