r8245@danube: weasel | 2006-08-09 12:24:00 +0200

 Add a few comments so I find the rationale for the autoconf --build/--host split in the future when I need it again

svn:r7000

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index c593860b51bde754618a738787fda45463c8b033..e52aae5a355bf825808ddb7342bdf79c8ecd5d7e 100755 (executable)
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -11,15 +11,20 @@ include /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make
 
 # These are used for cross-compiling and for saving the configure script
 # from having to guess our platform (since we know it already)
+#
+# See /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz which suggests
+# this way of passing --build and --host.  Also see the thread on
+# debian-devel './configure in debian/rules' from February/March 2006,
+# starting with <43FF212C.5020800@xs4all.nl> by Pjotr Kourzanov.
 export DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE   ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
 export DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
-CFLAGS ?= -Wall -g
 ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE), $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))
   confflags += --build $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
 else
   confflags += --build $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
 endif
 
+CFLAGS ?= -Wall -g
 
 LOCALHOST_IP  ?= $(shell getent hosts localhost | awk '{print $$1}')