On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:42 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > > To check the arch, always test against the HOST architecture. Native > > builds set HOST == BUILD but if the package is ever cross-built, your > > debian/rules must allow building an ARM package on amd64 (HOST=ARM, > > BUILD=amd64) and *NOT* enable -mtune. > > > > DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU=... -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU) > > > > This holds true for any architecture-specific checks in any package - > > always, always check the HOST value - BUILD is almost always the wrong > > variable to use.
> I think csound is unlikely to be cross-built. Sound synthesis is a pretty > cpu-intensive task. :-) don't think that cross-building is only for low resource units. I suppose csound may also require a lot of RAM. It is still possible that an arch could be sufficiently powerful to *run* csound but not capable of building gcc for itself. (I would be surprised if running csound is quite as much workload as compiling gcc.) > If I enable it then I should only enable it on the > appropriate environments. However there is still the question: is it > reasonable > to enable this option on supported archs? Yes. -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
