Re: [PATCH] kbuild, deb-pkg: select userland architectire based on UTS_MACHINE

Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2010-11-05T13:29:47Z

On 11/05/2010 12:41 PM, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:32:41PM +0000, Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen wrote:
>> Instead of creating the debian package for the compiling userland,
>> create it for a userland matching the kernel thats being compiled.
>>
>> This patch supports all Lenny release architectures,
>> and Linux-based architecture candidates for Squeeze.
>>
>> If it can't find a proper Debian userspace it displays a warning,
>> and fallback to let deb-gencontrol use the host's userspace arch.
>>
>> Eg. with this patch the following make command:
>>
>> make ARCH=i386 deb-pkg
>>
>> will output an i386 Debian package instead of an amd64 one,
>> when run on an amd64 machine.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen <asbjorn@asbjorn.biz>
>
> thank you, indeed very cool.

Thanks.

>> [...]
>> + case "$UTS_MACHINE" in
>> + i386|ia64|alpha|hppa)
>> + debarch="$UTS_MACHINE" ;;
>
> small nitpick parisc* != hppa

Right, hppa should be by it self.