+++ Helmut Grohne [2014-12-29 10:00 +0100]: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.17.23 > Severity: wishlist > User: helm...@debian.org > Usertags: rebootstrap > > Some packages need extra Build-Depends when they are cross compiled. > Here are some examples: > > * src:guile-2.0 needs guile-2.0 to cross-build > * src:glib2.0 needs libglib2.0-dev:any to cross-build > * src:autogen needs autogen to cross-build > * src:flex runs help2man and an easy way to do that is to use the build > arch flex > * src:bison also runs help2man and can benefit from build arch bison > > A way to address this need is to use the "cross" build profile[1]. Now I > am wondering whether dpkg-buildpackage should set the cross build > profile automatically. The logic for doing so is as simple as: if the > host architecture differs from the build architecture, enable that > profile.
> If dpkg is not the place to add this facility, the place that invokes > dpkg-buildpackage needs to enable this profile explicitly. That probably > means that sbuild needs to do this. > > Thoughts? The thinking to date has been that this is not a job for the low-level tool dpkg-buildpackage. That provides the mechanism to set it but the environment sets things up. So yes, sbuild probably should do this, and pbuilder, and possibly debuild could/should do this, but I'm leery of dpkg-buildpackage doing it. But I could be wrong, and as we integrate this stuff more tightly, maybe it makes sense to move such functionality into lower-level tools. I have a feeling that dpkg-buildpackage should do 'policy' level build things so if the above became policy then dpkg-buildpackage should probably make sure it gets done. Perhaps the biggest disadvantage is indeed that if even the low-level build tool does this automatically then how do you turn it off? Is there is fact no good reason to ever want to? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
