[Sussex] Ubuntu dpkg-buildpackage assistance sought

[David Morris]

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d binderman wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Make g++ point to your compiler?  Or is that too much of a hack.

> 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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