* Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]>, 2012-01-30, 17:07:
Hi all,I am trying to automated the list of archs from d/rules files. I am using : ... include /usr/share/mono/mono-archs.make %: dh $@ --with cli mono_archs=$(DEB_MONO_ARCHS) override_dh_gencontrol: dh_gencontrol -- -Vmono:Archs:"$(mono_archs)" ... It seems like this is a bad idea, as I get: $ dpkg-buildpackage dpkg-buildpackage: source package gdcm dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2.2.0-2 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64 dpkg-source --before-build gdcm-2.2.0 dpkg-source: error: `${mono:Archs}' is not a legal architecture string dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build gdcm-2.2.0 gave error exit status 255
Note that this error came from dpkg-source, before debian/rules was run. (Therefore, it has nothing to do with dh_gencontrol.)
If you're trying to use ${mono:Archs} in the Architecture field, then no, you can't do this:
"While variable substitution is done on all control fields, some of those fields are used and needed during the build when the substitution did not yet occur. That's why you can't use variables in the Package, Source and Architecture fields." (from deb-substvars manpage)
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