[php-maint] Bug#429066: Bug#429066: please remove unneccesary DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE fudging

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:32:29PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> Package: php5
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-arm at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: eabi

> php5 packaging first seds off -gnu from DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE and
> DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM and then adds it back unconditionally. This
> brakes building on archs where *_GNU_SYSTEM does not end up
> with -gnu (such as armel, where it is arm-linux-gnueabi).

> The whole step seems completly pointless and the reason for
> these options isn't explained.

Lost in the mists of time.

> Most packages just give DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE to ./configure as is.

This seems correct to me.

Cheers,
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