+++ peter green [2012-03-29 20:06 +0100]: > >Now, you can build packages without using dpkg-buildpackage by calling > >rules directly, and in that case the rules file would need to call > >dpkg-architecture, but someone would have to convince me that that was > >an interface worth supporting for non-native builds > The big reason it's worth supporting IMO is that with most packages you > can "resume" after a failld build by manually running debian/rules > build. When fixing compile errors in a large package I don't want to > have to restart the build from scratch after every file I fix.
That is indeed a very useful use case (and the only one I use rules for directly, apart from 'clean' quite often). But it's not hard to do 'dpkg-buildpackage -Tbuild' to get exactly the same effect but with the dpkg-buildpackage environement set-up done too. So if we decided that cross-building was only expected to work via dpkg-buildpackage -a<arch>, you wouldn't be unduly inconvenienced, would you? Is there some important subtle difference here that I am missing? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120330130636.gb15...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
