Hi, On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > While I wholeheartly welcome adding such a script, I am surprised why > it is made so complicated and hard to read. > > Is there a reason for dpkg_late_eval?
Performance. If the variables are not used, there's no subprocess executed. And once it has been executed, the value is kept (i.e. no multiple executions either). > And why all the ?= in scripts/mk/architecture.mk? Because we need to respect the value in the environment if they are set. dpkg-builpackage does set them to non-standard values if you pass it the -a and/or -t option. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
