Hello, I help to work on a existing Debian package (aboot) which currently only exits for alpha. Since it is boot related, there are requests (as bugs) to split off part of the package which can be built on any architecture besides alpha into a "any" packet.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211777 Currently my patch has three targets: One all-target (aboot-base) which contains files (no binaries) which can be built only on alpha but are required for other architectures as well, so it is architecture "all" (I read autobuilders never build those, so an alpha upload of them does the job). One target "any" (currently labled isomarkboot) which contains binaries for any architecture, and lastly "aboot" itself which contains the rest which does not make sense to port (of no use on other archs and besides contains alpha specific assembly). So my debian/rules currently contains the following targets: build: # We do nothing here build-aboot: build-aboot-stamp build-aboot-base: build-aboot-base-stamp build-isomarkboot: build-isomarkboot-stamp build-aboot-stamp: # Some code build-aboot-base-stamp: # Some code build-isomarkboot-stamp: # Some code clean: # Some code install-aboot: install-aboot-stamp install-aboot-base: install-aboot-base-stamp install-isomarkboot: install-isomarkboot-stamp install-aboot-stamp: build-aboot-stamp # Some code install-aboot-base-stamp: build-aboot-base-stamp # Some code install-isomarkboot-stamp: build-isomarkboot-stamp # Some code # Build architecture-independent files here. binary-indep: build-aboot-base install-aboot-base # We have nothing to do besides calling targets (?) # Build architecture-dependent files here. binary-arch: build-aboot build-isomarkboot install-aboot install-isomarkboot # Here I do all the packaging stuff (no -p required) binary: binary-indep binary-arch # Some code Although my debian/control says: Package: aboot Architecture: alpha it is ignored when I run "dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b -rfakeroot", i.e. on i386 the target build-aboot is attempted and of course, the build fails. Manually calling make -f debian/rules build-isomarkboot works fine (though of course no package itself is made). On alpha all three targets work, all three packages are created and contain the proper contents, linda and lintian are completely happy. So my question is: How do I build this on non-alpha archs or, if my layout is wrong (though I read policy to understand how it works), how do I properly create the targets in debian/rules so that I can build the isomarkboot-package (and only this one) on other architectures? Please CC: me as I am not subscribed, thanks. Thanks for info && pointers. Helge P.S. I looked at pbuilder, but it also seems to call dpkg-buildpackage as I would do manually. -- Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/
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