On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 19:10:47 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 01:55:01 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > > Why? > > > Because make does not (yet) pass make variables to $(shell) subshells. > [...] > > Try this: > > > $ make -f debian/rules DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt build > > > instead. This just breaks the interface. We could of course simply > > just document that people should not do that… it's still a regression > > from when people switched to dpkg-buildflags (me included).
> I think that it is already documented perfectly well in policy 4.9.1 > which explicitely says that DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is an *environment* > variable (not a make variable). And so it is! Thanks Andreas for the pointer, and sorry for the noise. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141008103758.ga9...@gaara.hadrons.org