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

Message ID 1291908254-19468-1-git-send-email-asbjorn@asbjorn.biz (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen Dec. 9, 2010, 3:24 p.m. UTC
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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
+the UTS_MACHINE variable, and on some architectures also the kernel config.
+The value of KBUILD_DEBARCH is assumed (not checked) to be a valid Debian
+architecture.
+
 CROSS_COMPILE
 --------------------------------------------------
 Specify an optional fixed part of the binutils filename.
diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index 5d6be3f..ffe2419 100644
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@  create_package() {
 		echo "Please add support for $UTS_MACHINE to ${0} ..." >&2
 		echo "" >&2
 	esac
+	if [ -n "$KBUILD_DEBARCH" ] ; then
+		debarch="$KBUILD_DEBARCH"
+	fi
 	if [ -n "$debarch" ] ; then
 		forcearch="-DArchitecture=$debarch"
 	fi