On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 03:32:37PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > 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.
Ah, I see. Well, but policy could specify that debian/rules, whatever it is, accepts options DEB_TARGET_ARCH=whatever and so on, or reads the environment variables. My proposal should still work, it would just be a bit more work for thise non-standard debian/rules files, which I don't know of. Now that you say that... I am scared by the idea of non-make debian/rules scripts, really. > 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). Agreed. Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
