Re: [PATCH v3] kbuild, deb-pkg: support overriding userland architecture

Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2010-12-09T15:42:11Z

On 12/09/2010 03:34 PM, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 9.12.2010 16:24, Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen wrote:
>> Usefull if building for sparc64 userland, because the
>> sparc and sparc64 userlands use the same 64-bit kernel,
>> making it impossible to always select the correct userland
>> architecture for the resulting debian package.
>>
>> Might also be usefull, if you want a i386 userland with a amd64 kernel.
>>
>> Example usage:
>> make KBUILD_DEBARCH=i386 deb-pkg
>>
>> LKML-reference: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1011051437500.13287@aurora.sdinet.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen <asbjorn@asbjorn.biz>
>> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
>> Acked-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
>> ---
>> Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 8 ++++++++
>> scripts/package/builddeb | 3 +++
>> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
>> index 634c625..9cf3bf0 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
>> @@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ But some architectures such as x86 and sparc have aliases.
>> x86: i386 for 32 bit, x86_64 for 64 bit
>> sparc: sparc for 32 bit, sparc64 for 64 bit
>>
>> +KBUILD_DEBARCH
>> +--------------------------------------------------
>> +For the deb-pkg target, allows overriding the normal heuristics deployed by
>> +deb-deb. Normally deb-pkg attempts to guess the right architecture based on
> ^^^^^^^
>
> deb-pkg?

Sure. Anything else before I make a v4?