On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:18:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Having a rule in debian/rules that depends on patch when using the quilt > makefile fragment is almost always wrong, since patch is a phony target > that will force any rule that depends on it to be rebuilt. This often > results in repeated compiles on the buildds, wasting resources. > > Replacing the patch dependency with $(QUILT_STAMPFN) fixes this problem. > > dpatch may have a similar issue; I haven't looked.
While I fully agree with this I would prefer to see this actually documented in quilt.make before warning about it. Just so that we know that the quilt maintainers agree with this assertion (and that they see QUILT_STAMPFN as a public interface). Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
