Hi, On Sun, 29 May 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: > > There is more than a handful of packages which do not care about > > dpkg-buildflags yet in debian/rules. Currently it's difficult to > > tell if a package build honors dpkg-buildflags or not. The only way > > to do this currently is to edit the config files for a test rebuild.
Do you often need to verify if a package supports dpkg-buildflags? In what context? > > The idea is to add some flags which do not have any effect on the > > package build, and then look at the build log if these flags are > > passed to the build. > > > > Such flags could be for > > > > - CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, FFLAGS: -D__BUILDD_<random-string>__ > > - LDFLAGS: -z buildd-<random-string> (gold would need a patch for this) > > Neat idea. Would it be possible to set this up as configuration on > buildds so people don't get the strange idea that this is a standard > dpkg feature they can rely on? (Cc-ing the buildd-tools developers as > a random guess for who could set this up.) Yeah, cc-ing [email protected] which might be more relevant. I also agree that it could be a good idea but I'm not convinced that dpkg is the right place to impose those fake flags by default. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
