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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/package/builddeb | 3 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt index 634c625da8ce..b146eb86e498 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt @@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ Specify the output directory when building the kernel. The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...". Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT. +KBUILD_DEBARCH +-------------------------------------------------- +For the deb-pkg target, allows overriding the normal heuristics deployed by +deb-pkg. 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. + ARCH -------------------------------------------------- Set ARCH to the architecture to be built. diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb index 5d6be3f5e7f7..ffe24194b763 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 |