>>"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Julian> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:02:21PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
>> I couldn't find in policy 3.5.7.0 any requirement that would allow
>> an autobuilder to know it should call "debian/rules build-arch"
>> instead of "debian/rules build", prior to call "fakeroot
>> debian/rules binary-arch".
>> I thought (as outlined in a related bugreport, although my words in
>> this report were a bit confused) that the policy should have made the
>> binary-arch target mandatory, so that the atobuilders could know from
>> the declared standard-version whether the target was expected or not.
Well, since policy currently lists build-arch and build-indep
as optional, and a large number of packages provide neither, we would
need to work through a transition period if we were to mandate
it. Also, since targets are not really something that helper packages
provide (as far as I am aware), every rules file would have to be
tweaked manually; and this is likely to take time. So, mandatory
would happen in a couple of releases; but I would think that we would
need a solution faster.
Julian> There was a long flame^Wdiscussion a while back about the possibility
Julian> of doing something like the following:
Julian> ret=$(set +e; debian/rules -q build-arch >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)
Julian> if [ $ret -eq 2 ]; then
Julian> debian/rules build
Julian> else
Julian> debian/rules build-arch
Julian> fi
This sounds workable, does not require most package's rules
files to be edited, and works today.
manoj
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