Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:57:55PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: >> Lets not complicate this matter with the age-long build/build-arch >> discussion. libtommath needs add the build-dependencies enough to >> to get through debian/rules build for the time being. > > Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why the build target > is called in the first place. Can't you just run "debian/rules > binary-arch" -- which is mandated by policy -- and everything will be ok > because of the target dependancies in debian/rules. Why use build at > all -- especially since dpkg-buildpackage can't determine the "right" > thing with build/build-arch?!?
I discussed this yesterday on #debian-devel. The main issues are - it's not possible to robustly determine if debian/rules contains a build-arch or build-indep target due to things like pattern rules. There are some hacky ways to do this, but these would not be reliable. Ideally, make needs to provide a means of querying if a target is present. - most packages do not yet contain a build-arch|build-indep target, and policy currently makes this optional. Calling "debian/rules binary-arch" will break a lot of packages. - moving to requiring these targets is something that would need to be done after the release of Lenny, as a release goal for Lenny+1. > And I would further argue that it's a bug for sbuild to use > dpkg-buildpackage (as it's currently implemented, using the build > target) without installing B-D-I. IOW, sbuild should fix this by > installing B-D-I to work around the dpkg-buildpackage issue, or use some > other method (run "debian/rules clean; debian/rules binary-arch" > manually) to build the arch-only portions of packages. Then, when the > issue with build/build-arch is finally resolved, only sbuild has to be > changed -- rather than make every packager fix this for each and every > package. I could fix this in sbuild, but unfortunately the packaged sbuild (which we maintain) is not the same as that used by the actual Debian autobuilders (which has a separate maintainer), and so this would not really help. Hopefully at some point the autobuilders can switch to the buildd-tools code, but the buildd/wanna-build part isn't ready for that yet. It will hopefully be ready after Lenny, but I can't promise anything. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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