On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > +If running a configure script, it may be necessary to prevent it being > > +run twice, once for architecture-independent packages, and again for > > +architecture-dependent packages. This may be accomplished by > > +overriding L<dh_autoconfigure(1)>: > > + > > + override_dh_auto_configure: config.status > > + > > + config.status: > > + dh_auto_configure -- $configure_options > > Is this patch somehow making it more likely that configure scripts run > by override tagets will be run twice? In my testing they run twice > when running debian/rules binary-indep; debian/rules binary-arch, but > so too without the patch.
The patch doesn't change anything in this respect; this is just to document one common method for avoiding this. > > +A sequence can also run dependent targets in debian/rules. For > > +example, the "binary" sequence runs the "install" target. This will > > +show up in the dh output as "debian/rules install", but internally > > +will be called "rules:install" in the sequence. The "install" > > +sequence likewise runs "debian/rules build", internally named > > +"rules:build". > > The dh man page does not need to document implementation details. Feel free to remove it if it's out of place; in the latest patch I sent the rules:foo commands in the sequence are recorded in the debhelper.log file, so the rules:foo commands may be used with --until, --after etc. Probably not a good plan for users to actually use them though. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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