Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist With dpkg 1.15.7 just uploaded to sid, there's now a dpkg-buildflags command that should be used to initialize CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, FFLAGS, CXXFLAGS. It offers some flexibility for the local admin and for the user to override/extend the default flags used during a package compilation.
dpkg-buildpackage continues to export them to not break packages but it exports the value returned by dpkg-buildflags. The desired outcome is that all package grab the values directly from dpkg-buildflags and that we can stop exporting the variables from dpkg-buildpackage. That way calling debian/rules directly and via dpkg-buildpackage should give the same result. Please modify the policy to recommend the usage of dpkg-buildflags (I would suggest to push that policy change just at the start of squeeze+1). CFLAGS=$(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS) Note: by using this tool you automatically implement the "noopt" feature of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100421071054.ga5...@rivendell
