On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > * Scott Howard <[email protected]>, 2011-12-30, 11:36: >> Also, I'm not too familiar with this package, but is there any reason why >> you want to explicitly set DEB_BUILD and DEB_HOST types in debian/rules? > > > Please see: /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz > > (On the other hand, dh_auto_configure does pass correct --build (and --host, > if necessary) to configure script out of the box.)
I had an aha moment with that (repeating what is probably obvious to others but might be worthwhile if you haven't thought of it before): the reason why we do that is so that we can set DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE, and if it is different than the host, our rules will pass a --host option to configure even if the user didn't set DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE. And when configure gets a --host option, it goes into cross-compiling mode. Thanks, I checked and use dh_auto_configure in all but one of my packages, so I'll fix that one with the next upload. Is this something worth having a lintian check for? Explicitly calling configure without properly setting those variables in rules? ~Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cang8-dcz4c_+whrhtugg4vhvcfzth-opt6ieleoy3mnncwc...@mail.gmail.com
