Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pjotr Kourzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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. Hm, I've only been doing this in packages that use AC_CANONICAL_HOST. Is there benefit to doing this even with packages that don't care at all about the system type and don't even include config.guess and config.sub in the source package? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
