On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote: > I tried `dpkg-buildpackage -b -apotato_i386 -rfakeroot' on potato after > I first build the package with `dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' on woody. > Potato may not be a different architecture than woody, but it was the > closest thing I could find. This didn't work though - the package wasn't > build at all. I suspect dpkg-buildpackage checks if the architecture is > something valid and refuses to do anything if it is something unknown > like `potato' :-(.
The 'architecture' argument is used for cross-compiling, e.g. from i386 to powerpc. Unless you have an x86 potato environment set up for cross-building (complete with a second copy of gcc and binutils :), this option won't be of much use. Probably not too important in the present context, but I'm compelled to share trivia when the subject of cross-compiling arises :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
