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Re: FTFBS in sarge



On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 19:40:10 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> said: 

> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:42:53 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow
>> <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> said:
>> 
>>> I wonder if it would be possible to tell make-kpkg to build the
>>> -all packages without invoking arch specific steps (which need the
>>> right host arch). The binary-arch target could then be a nop for
>>> the wrong archs and "dpkg-buildpackage -b" would work everywhere.
>> 
__> man make-kpkg
>> ...  See the binary-indep and binary-arch above?

> Yes. I know those targets exist as per policy. Thats doesn't mean
> anything though. Normaly the binary-* targets call the configure and
> build target and then you are back to square one.

	Umm, are we still talking about having make-kpkg doo something
 feasible?  The original suggestion was to make it build the -all
 packages; that does not call build. the source package does not need
 things to be configured. The headers packages doo , because it would
 not make sense for them not to.

> The problems with kernel-patch/image packages I saw were that it
> loops in make oldconfig if the arch is wrong and no .config is
> provided.

	Well, garbage in, garbage out.  You can' get anything correct
 out of a kernel build if the arch is wrong; and make-kpkg
 can't yet do magic or read minds.

> Does binary-indep work without running make oldconfig?

	No, since kerel headers are useless without running oldconfig.

>>> PS: Maybe something for the ToDo post sarge.
>> 
>> Or, if one reads the man page, something that can be done now.

> To do for the kernel-patch/image packages. Some packages had bugs
> against this and aparently been somehow fixed (like ppc) while other
> haven't (like s390). But its not realy sarge critical.

	Uh, what?

	manoj

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