Hello! Reading maemo-policy.pdf, page 15 (sorry for the long quote, but it's important):
<<<The DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable can be used to control certain features when building packages. If a package supports a feature discussed below, it MUST use the given option for controlling enabling of that feature. Options currently used by the maemo build infrastructure: thumb: Whether to enable compilation with the ARM thumb instruction set [...] vfp: Whether to enable compilation with the ARM vfp (limited floating point) instruction set [...] This option is used only when building a package for a CPU architecture supporting vfp (770 doesn’t, later devices do). [... skipping nolauncher option since it's not useful ...] parallel=N Asks the package to enable GNU Make’s -jN parallel build option to speed up the package build>>> Many of the packages I've uploaded to extras-builder so far support both thumb and parallel= options, and while parallel is just a matter of compilation speed (and it depends of the hardware builder runs on), the thumb options is definitely a Good Thing to have, because it makes the executables smaller by 20-30% in my measurements. As far as I understand, enabling these DEB_BUILD_OPTION's in the builder should not affect older packages that do not have support for thumb and/or vfp. So, maybe it would make sense to enable these options in maemo builder? -- Greetings, Andrew
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