Neil Williams wrote: > As noted elsewhere in this thread, --build can be specified alone but is > usually only used for specialist builds for i686 on i386 etc. I fail to > see the merit of proposing that packages add --build to the normal > Debian build for no reason.
As also noted elsewhere on this thread, the other way around is also bad: optimizing for i686 when you should be targetting i386 (which I guess is the case on most x86 developer machines): Quoting Steve Langasek > There *is* a need to specify --build when not cross-compiling, if > your upstream build rules do clever things when the architecture is > detected as "i686" instead of "i386". -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
