Hi! On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 12:33:31 -0700, Danek Duvall wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.18.24 > Severity: wishlist
> I'm trying to run a build of Debian's vim package, but limiting it to a couple > of variants, to reduce the build time. The debian/rules file allows you to > set > the VARIANT variable on the commandline to the variants you want, but > communicating a variable with a value containing a space to the makefile via > dpkg-buildpackage isn't possible, as far as I can tell. > > What does work is > > dpkg-buildpackage -b --no-sign -R"debian/rules VARIANT=vim-nox" > > Though perhaps I'm abusing the -R option here a bit, as there's no explicit > way > to pass non-target arguments to dpkg-buildpackage (and perhaps that's the real > request here). > > What does not work is > > dpkg-buildpackage -b --no-sign -R"debian/rules VARIANT='vim-nox vim-tiny'" > > It complains that there's no "vim-tiny'" target. Yeah, because that's not a valid invocation. :) You should just pass the variable as part of the environment, such as: $ VARIANT="a b" dpkg-buildpackage --no-sign -b Does that not work? Otherwise I'll just close this report. Or perhaps add some words to the man page in case this was not obvious. Thanks, Guillem
