[Sussex] Ubuntu dpkg-buildpackage assistance sought

[d binderman]

Hello there,

> You've not specified the make/build system that your source code is
> using nor what your package is using.

I didn't think of that ;->

It's not my source code and it's not my package - I plan to put
all 20,000+ existing Ubuntu packages through a test C / C++ compiler
by some reasonable mechanism.

I could hand edit each of the 20,000 configure scripts, but that sounds like
too much hard work. Hence my question to change it once,
for dpkg-buildpackage, for all packages.

I don't want to go as far as doing a complete install of the test compiler as 
the default system compiler - that's bound to end in tears.

A possible other solution might be to use a new special architecture, let's
say dcbSpecial, which is a brother to things like amd64 and pentium, which
does special things. I haven't looked into this one too deeply, however.

On rpm based systems, what I want to do is a fairly trivial tweek of rpmbuild, 
but I am new to Debian based systems, so I am climbing the learning curve.

Thanks for your enquiry. 


Cheers

David Binderman

 		 	   		  
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