[pkg-db-devel] Bug#623543: Bug#623543: db: Incorrect use of DEB_BUILD_ variables breaks cross-compilation
Ondřej Surý
ondrej at sury.org
Thu Apr 21 15:05:42 UTC 2011
Thanks,
fixed in git and will include it in some next upload.
Sometimes the names are not intuitive (BUILD - building for, HOST -
host machine... I should have read the manpage). Thanks for catching
that.
O.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:49, Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: db
> Source-Version: 5.1.25-6
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi!
>
> I just noticed from the latest changelog that DEB_HOST_ARCH variables
> got switched to DEB_BUILD_ARCH, but this is not correct. Host refers
> to the machine the packages are being built for, build is the machine
> the packages are being built on. Refer to the dpkg-architecture man
> page for more details.
>
> While inspecting the debian/rules file I've noticed several other
> DEB_BUILD_ variables being used when the DEB_HOST_ counterparts should
> be used instead.
>
> I've not actually cross-compiled it, but this will certainly break
> cross-compilation.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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