[or-cvs] r7000: Add a few comments so I find the rationale for the autoconf (in tor/trunk: . debian)

[weasel@xxxxxxxx]

Author: weasel
Date: 2006-08-09 06:25:01 -0400 (Wed, 09 Aug 2006)
New Revision: 7000

Modified:
   tor/trunk/
   tor/trunk/debian/rules
Log:
 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



Property changes on: tor/trunk
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Name: svk:merge
   - 1f724f9b-111a-0410-b636-93f1a77c1813:/local/or/tor/trunk:8207
c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59:/tor/branches/eventdns:7014
c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59:/tor/branches/mmap:7030
c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59:/tor/branches/oo-connections:6950
c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59:/tor/branches/versions:7286
   + 17f730b7-d419-0410-b50f-85ee4b70197a:/local/or/tor/trunk:8245
1f724f9b-111a-0410-b636-93f1a77c1813:/local/or/tor/trunk:8207
c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59:/tor/branches/eventdns:7014
c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59:/tor/branches/mmap:7030
c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59:/tor/branches/oo-connections:6950

Modified: tor/trunk/debian/rules
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/debian/rules	2006-08-09 08:30:11 UTC (rev 6999)
+++ tor/trunk/debian/rules	2006-08-09 10:25:01 UTC (rev 7000)
@@ -11,15 +11,20 @@
 
 # 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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}')