Hello,
I am offering a third patch that implement the Build-Options control
field proposal.
--- policy.sgml Wed Oct 29 22:49:42 2003
+++ policy.sgml.new3 Wed Nov 12 21:25:12 2003
@@ -1856,15 +1856,6 @@
</p>
<p>
- If one or both of the targets <tt>build-arch</tt> and
- <tt>build-indep</tt> are not provided, then invoking
- <file>debian/rules</file> with one of the not-provided
- targets as arguments should produce a exit status code
- of 2. Usually this is provided automatically by make
- if the target is missing.
- </p>
-
- <p>
The <tt>build-arch</tt> and <tt>build-indep</tt> targets
must not do anything that might require root privilege.
</p>
@@ -2209,6 +2200,7 @@
<item><qref id="f-Section"><tt>Section</tt></qref>
(recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="f-Priority"><tt>Priority</tt></qref>
(recommended)</item>
<item><qref id="sourcebinarydeps"><tt>Build-Depends</tt> et
al</qref></item>
+ <item><qref id="f-Build-Options"><tt>Build-Options</tt></qref>
(optional)</item>
<item><qref
id="f-Standards-Version"><tt>Standards-Version</tt></qref> (recommended)</item>
</list>
</p>
@@ -2575,6 +2567,19 @@
</p>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="f-Build-Options">
+ <heading><tt>Build-Options</tt></heading>
+ <p>
+ The syntax is a list of options separated by
+ commas that are implemented in the build process.
+ The following options are defined:
+ <list>
+ <item> <tt>build-arch</tt> The optional targets "build-arch"
+ and "build-indep" are implemented by <tt>debian/rules</tt>
+ as defined in <ref id="debianrules">. </item>
+ </list>
+ </p>
+ </sect1>
<sect1 id="f-Version">
<heading><tt>Version</tt></heading>
Cheers,
--
Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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