On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Neil Williams wrote: > > Honestly I have never seen anyone doing cross-builds and calling > > debian/rules manually. > > ... only because it *always* fails .... > > I have longed for such support myself at times. It is incredibly > frustrating to see a cross-build fail 90% of the way through and then > be faced within having to run the clean target after putting in a test > fix to an .install file or similar... > > Yes, once all the fixes are in, the actual build is done with > dpkg-buildpackage. In the meantime, we do need support to be able to > run individual debian/rules targets within the cross-build environment > and without having to delete everything you've just cross-compiled.
Since Peter Green also said something similar, let me point out that dpkg-buildpackage has a "-nc" option which avoids "debian/rules clean" and thus give similar results to calling "debian/rules build" (or binary) directly. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120330131334.gh18...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
