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

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

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?

Michal