On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > + If the architecture-restricted dependency is part of a set of > + alternatives using <tt>|</tt>, that branch of the alternative is > + ignored completely on architectures that do not match the > + restriction. For example: > + <example compact="compact"> > +Build-Depends: foo [!i386] | bar [!amd64] > + </example> > + is equivalent to <tt>bar</tt> on the i386 architecture, to > + <tt>foo</tt> on the amd64 architecture, and to <tt>foo | > + bar</tt> on all other architectures.
The "branch" part is slightly confusing; I think you want "that alternative". [Otherwise it makes it sound like foo [!i386] | bar [!amd64] should be treated like foo on everything not i386 or bar on everything not i386/amd64; you have to read the example to figure out exactly what is meant.] Don Armstrong -- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
