Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:22:11PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> It is noteworthy that the split build-arch/build-all seems to be next
>> to useless, as dpkg-buildpackage invokes build (because the former two
>> a optional) and "the build target should depend on those of the
>> targets build-arch and build-indep that are provided in the rules
>> file."
> Why exactly is this? Is this really the correct behavior? Shouldn't
> dpk-buildpackage be invoked using the -B option?
It is, and quoting /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage ...
| -B) binaryonly=-B; checkbuilddep_args=-B; binarytarget=binary-arch;
[...]
| if [ x$sourceonly = x ]; then
| withecho debian/rules build
| withecho $rootcommand debian/rules $binarytarget
| fi
... this invokes debian/rules build
Afaict the reason for this is that build-arch and build-all are
optional targets per policy.
cu andreas
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