=head1 BUILD SYSTEM OPTIONS
+All of the B<dh_auto_>I<*> debhelper programs sets environment variables
+listed by B<dpkg-buildflags>, unless they are already set. They
+support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt too.
+
The following command line options are supported by all of the B<dh_auto_>I<*>
debhelper programs. These programs support a variety of build systems,
and normally heuristically determine which to use, and how to use them.
package will generally need to depend on debconf. Or if you use
L<dh_installxfonts(1)>, your package will generally need to depend on a
particular version of xutils. Keeping track of these miscellaneous
-dependencies can be annoying since they are dependant on how debhelper does
+dependencies can be annoying since they are dependent on how debhelper does
things, so debhelper offers a way to automate it.
All commands of this type, besides documenting what dependencies may be
=item v9
-This compatability level is still open for development; use with caution.
+This compatibility level is still open for development; use with caution.
Changes from v8 are:
=item -
Multiarch support. In particular, B<dh_auto_configure> passes
-multiarch directories to autoconf in --libdir and --libexecdir,
-while B<dh_makeshlibs> detects packages containing multiarch
-directories and sets a Pre-Dependency on multiarch-support in
-${misc:Pre-Depends}
+multiarch directories to autoconf in --libdir and --libexecdir.
=item -
=item -
-<dh_auto_configure> does not include the source package name
+B<dh_auto_configure> does not include the source package name
in --libexecdir when using autoconf.
=back