On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > We have the -j command now, so it's much less useful. Still I have created
> > another patch that implements what I explained above: it offers a -R
> > option to replace "debian/rules" by whatever you want.
> >
> > (the other patches were meant for the old shell version of
> > dpkg-buildpackage anyway)
> >
> > Frank, any comments or is it safe to commit?
>
> Hrm, the whole split(/\s+/) is somewhat ugly
It's not very nice but works in 99% of the use case that I can imagine.
The alternative is to accept those options multiple times:
-R/usr/local/bin/make -R-f -Rdebian/rules
I didn't find that to be nicer.
> (and BTW not documented for the -R option).
It's indirectly documented by the fact that one can use a value like the
example given ("/usr/local/bin/make -f debian/rules") which contains
spaces. If you have something more specific in mind, please feel free to
suggest it.
> Please do not commit before the upcoming upload, to give
> us a chance to think that over.
Sure, I didn't plan to commit before anyway. I don't want to introduce
bugs at the last minute. :)
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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