-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 8 Apr 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> Here's the debian/rules from my GIMP packages. It should clear up > your confusion. It uses debhelper judiciously; I'd recommend using > debhelper to save your sanity. :) > > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > # First, we build the package. The automake/aclocal/autoconf stuff > # isn't important; it's to get around libtool wonkiness. Ignore it. :) > > build: build-stamp > build-stamp: > dh_testdir > automake > aclocal > autoconf I disagree here. If you put this in a different debian/rules target (called, for example, automake-refresh), then you and only you would be forced to have automake and autoconf installed, but nobody else. Currently, you force to have those tools installed to everybody who wants to recompile the package. Think about all the GNU packages: They include a configure script which already matches the configure.in, so that the person compiling the package has not to have autoconf installed. I don't see any reason why Debian packages should not take this as a good practice also. Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNSyjzSqK7IlOjMLFAQEKEgP/aWKCXaGKjsDGAt9qIl+/VRyZ8cnjel2e XYkCRmmtCX5AwWMaIJUDb49wRIQQuRkfuhqC1DDX4zJv233fO6H5qQj37ezeNpPX 2uNxHF/WW25uqIz6Ds9ygPTWgDNHE1GzDCIo4kvmf/0uUt2URZwuWFYRaqNnMhSu 46RK8eGA6GY= =byEc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
