Pjotr Kourzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear developers, > > In a number of packages (e.g., busybox, dash and many more) the > debian/rules Makefile calls ./configure without --host argument. This > makes the life quite difficult for cross-compilation - for every > such package I need to add --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) to every > configure invocation in debian/rules.
Were can I read up on how and why I should do this? AFAIR, the policy mentions this variable in the section about debian/rules, but does not make their use mandatory. > Is there a workaround that avoids touching debian/rules? What is > the preferred way to solve this problem with dpkg-buildpackage? Educate your developer collegues? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
