On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > So, dpkg-buildpackage would call "make debian/whatever" with following > environments:
Minor glitch - currently, policy doesn't mandate that debian/rules be a make script (and this is probably a good thing). So, dpkg-buildpackage should simply execute debian/rules. > The only drawback I can see: If you do cross compilation, you can't easily > run "debian/rules target" and expect it to work. You'd need to set the > variables correctly. However, this is a small price and does only affect > cross compilation. Currently, cross compilation is not supported at all > (without major hacks and dpkg-cross), so this is not a big deal. (This is a > direct consequence from the fact that we don't have a debian/configure, > similar to GNU configure. GNU configure does not have the problem, because > it builds the Makefiles before using them. In our case, a default of native > compilation is hard coded in the rules files, for backward compatibility). My gut instincts tell me that encouraging people to use dpkg-buildpackage is *good* since this means we can incorporate future ideas like this one directly there. We should simply make dpkg-buildpackage more flexible (so that, for example, in the event you don't want a whole build, you can specify a target - if we don't already have this functionality). Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
