Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:45:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > type-handling already does all you ever want. Except: - its not in build-essential - its not integrated into dpkg or the build system So it may be fine, it doesn't actually do anything useful. If a pre-existing program t

Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:47:29PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > Except you are also changing the syntax for the control file. That is > > all I see as a negative for this. > > Well to fix this in a proper way we have to do _some_ changes, mine > is the solution with less impact and minimal

Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:08:58PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > When Debian was only linux-gnu, one could check DEB_HOST_ARCH for "i386" to > > do > > something on i386 only. Currently, if you check DEB_*_ARCH for "i386" > > you're > > implicitly checking for linux-gnu. This is why Marc

Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On another thread, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Could we automatically define some @linux@ or @any-i386@ variables the > >> same way shlidbs or other substitutions work? > > > >

Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 03:27:04PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:57:09PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > That's exactly what my patch tries to do, but extending the > > recognised normal arches with some aliases that get expaned and > > normalized to normal debian archtit

Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On another thread, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Could we automatically define some @linux@ or @any-i386@ variables the >> same way shlidbs or other substitutions work? > > That's exactly what my patch tries to do, but extending the > recognised

Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:57:09PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > type-handling already does all you ever want. > > No, it does not. And as Robert has explained in another mail it > needs hacks like an autogenerated control file, and use of self > defined "aliases", etc. Yeah, that's why I'

Bug#291939: Bug#268377: Bug#291939: Support for arch aliases

2005-01-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:45:24AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The idea is to introduce architecture aliases, they will only take > > effect on the source package and will get expanded when building > > the binary package so there's not ne