On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 07:34:02AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > >>>>> Guy Maor writes: > > GM> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 1) Make "-e" the default. > > GM> No way! -e is a horrible argument that makes makefiles break for > GM> mysterious reasons.
(Note that dpkg-cross does exactly this, and it seemed to work for years now, but I agree, it does conflict with concept of least surprise. I don't want to be responsible for those bugs that crop up). > GM> You should just arrange for the overrides to be set on the > GM> command line. > > I agree with Guy here. Ah, that's another solution. Thanks for pointing out. So we will do in dpkg-buildpackage (from top of my head): debian/rules `dpkg-architecture -a$ARCH` and people who don't use dpkg-buildpackage (oh my dear!) can do one of the following: debian/rules `dpkg-buildpackage -ahurd-i386` build or eval `dpkg-architecture -ahurd-i386 -s` export MAKEFLAGS=-e # at their responsibility (I can probably support a flag to dpkg-architecture that sets MAKEFLAGS variable optionally) or dpkg-architecture -a hurd-i386 -m -c "debian/rules build" where "-m" is a new flag that makes the variables not to be set in an environment, but passed as make variables. Note that this solution only requires modification of dpkg-buildpackage and the way how people can do it manually. I like it. It seems to get easier to use it directly, and nothing else changes. Ok, I will make the change to dpkg-buildpackage. BTW: It is important that people don't use "dpkg --print-arhcitecture" in there scripts anymore, but "--print-installation-architecture". The first one has no sane definition for other systems beside Linux. That's the bug in e2fsprogs that I mentioned. The consequence is that compilation will default to native building when dpkg-architecture is circumvented (either directly or when dpkg-buildpackage is not used) Thanks, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
