On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
> I am not sure I understand the issue. From the (partial) typescript,
> it seems a make is attempted in the doc directory without a previous
> make at the top level. This has never been supported: make should
> be run in the top-level directory and it will recurse on the
> subdirectories in the right order.
I'm glad that you ask.
make does whatever you tell it to do in debian/rules, nothing more,
and nothing less.
When using "dpkg-buildpackage -A" to create only the
architecture-independent packages, the targets which are used
are build-indep and binary-indep.
The build-arch target does indeed "make" at the top level directory
but in this case it does not run because we are creating
arch-independent packages only.
The build-indep target does this:
build-indep: build-indep-stamp
build-indep-stamp: configure-stamp
export save_size=10000 ; $(MAKE) -C doc user-configured
touch $@
I think this explains the error.
In this case debian/rules is blindly assuming that build-arch has been
run at least once. This is why "dpkg-buildpackage" works when you
build all binary packages. But this has to work as well when
you want to create only arch-independent packages.
So, you have to arrange things in debian/rules so that make does
whatever is right to do in each case.
Thanks.
