Bug#531307: dpkg-dev: dpkg-architecture should have a variable to flag 64bit architectures

2009-06-28 Thread Guillem Jover
tag 531307 patch thanks Hi! On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 01:21:03 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 31 May 2009, Julien BLACHE wrote: It may be necessary for one reason or another to determine in debian/rules whether an architecture is 64bit or not. There isn't really a good way to do

Bug#531307: dpkg-dev: dpkg-architecture should have a variable to flag 64bit architectures

2009-06-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: Actually I had some discussion about exporting the wordsize and endianness few months ago on #debian-dpkg with Hector Oron. So I've done some preliminary coding, something like this could do, after some cleanup:

Bug#531307: dpkg-dev: dpkg-architecture should have a variable to flag 64bit architectures

2009-06-21 Thread Julien BLACHE
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Hi, So, I think a new variable like DEB_ARCH_64BIT would be a nice and handy thing to have. More likely DEB_ARCH_BITS=64 so that it covers the future too. However this information doesn't exist currently. Yup, that would do. JB. -- Julien

Bug#531307: dpkg-dev: dpkg-architecture should have a variable to flag 64bit architectures

2009-06-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 31 May 2009, Julien BLACHE wrote: It may be necessary for one reason or another to determine in debian/rules whether an architecture is 64bit or not. There isn't really a good way to do that today, and dpkg-architecture seems like the natural place to add this. So, I think a

Bug#531307: dpkg-dev: dpkg-architecture should have a variable to flag 64bit architectures

2009-05-31 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, It may be necessary for one reason or another to determine in debian/rules whether an architecture is 64bit or not. There isn't really a good way to do that today, and dpkg-architecture seems like the natural place to add this. So, I