On Monday 18 June 2007 04:30:55 am Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to gather up some momentum for a policy change. Namely > that the build-arch/indep targets in debian/rules become required > instead of being optional. > > The reason for this is that dpkg-buildpackage can't reliable detect > the existance of the build-arch/indep targets and must call 'build' > instead. This forces every source to compile both architecture > specific and architecture independent code on all buildds and > increases the Build-Depends of packages a lot.
How about instead requiring something like: the build-arch target must return successfully or with a status of 2 (the standard make error status for "target not found"), and in the latter case the build target must return successfully. That is, if Build-Depends but not necessarily Build-Depends-Indep are installed, the shell snippet debian/rules build-arch || (test $? -eq 2 && debian/rules build) must work and exit with a status of 0. This would make it possible for dpkg-buildpackage -B to be reliable while allowing most (or even all?) of the current packages to stay as they are until maintainers can add the recommended build-arch target. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
