On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Hopefully this is the correct mailing list. I've got a > question about building debs for i386 and amd64: If I > add
It's not. This is a debhelper issue, not dpkg. > > > Package: mydeb > Architecture: i386 amd64 > : > : > Package: mydeb-32bit > Architecture: amd64 > : > : > > into the src/debian/control file, then it works on > amd64, but on i386 I get an error message saying > > : > dh_gencontrol > dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture i386 does not appear in > package's list (amd64) > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280 > make[1]: *** [binary-common] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mydeb/mydeb-1.0.1' > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 > Build command 'cd mydeb-1.0.1 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. > E: Child process failed > > > Is there an option to dh_gencontrol or dpkg_gencontrol > to ignore packages for foreign build architectures only? dh_gencontrol -s
