Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: deb-pkg: apply short -R and -j options

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 6:56 AM Dmitrii Bundin
<dmitrii.bundin.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The long version --rules-file and --jobs are available since 1.18.8
> while their short analogues -R and -j have been added since 1.14.7.
>
> The option --rules-file the way it works currently was introduced in the
> commit 5cd52673aabdf5eaa58181972119a41041fc85f2 of dpkg dated 23.07.18
> with the following changelog entry:
>
> * Fix dpkg-buildpackage option --rules-file parsing. It was trying to parse
>   it as --rules-target, which due to the ordering was a no-op.
>
> The current behavior of the long version --rules-file is guaranteed to
> be in use starting 1.19.1 and might cause build failures for some
> versions newer than 1.18.8 even in spite of being documented that way.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Bundin <dmitrii.bundin.a@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks.


>  scripts/Makefile.package | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.package b/scripts/Makefile.package
> index 2bcab02da965..af96319be98e 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.package
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.package
> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ deb-pkg srcdeb-pkg bindeb-pkg:
>         $(if $(findstring source, $(build-type)), \
>                 --unsigned-source --compression=$(KDEB_SOURCE_COMPRESS)) \
>         $(if $(findstring binary, $(build-type)), \
> -               --rules-file='$(MAKE) -f debian/rules' --jobs=1 -r$(KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD) -a$$(cat debian/arch), \
> +               -R'$(MAKE) -f debian/rules' -j1 -r$(KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD) -a$$(cat debian/arch), \
>                 --no-check-builddeps) \
>         $(DPKG_FLAGS))
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada