On 7 Feb 1999, James Troup wrote:
> Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > James Troup wrote:
> > > Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > The $64K question is... is this okay?
> > >
> > > No; see the fine packaging manual. `build' is a required target for
> > > debian/rules (3.2.1) and if you omit, your package will be unbuildable
> > > with dpkg-buildpackage and as result will fail for all the non-i386
> > > ports and anyone who tries to build the package from source.
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer. I will put in an empty build target to satisfy
> > this.
>
> No, the build target should be present and should do something,
> i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other
> build targets, it should still build stuff.
In fact, in this case, I'd suggest:
build: build-a build-b
build-a: configure-a
$(MAKE) DESTDIR=debian/tmp-a
build-b: configure-b
$(MAKE) DESTDIR=debian/tmp-b
configure-a: stamp-configure-a
configure-b: stamp-configure-b
stamp-configure-a:
rm stamp-configure-*
./configure --options-for-a
touch stamp-configure-a
stamp-configure-b:
rm stamp-configure-*
./configure --options-for-b
touch stamp-configure-b
binary: binary-a binary-b
binary-a:
(test root)
(build deb from tmp-a)
binary-b:
(test root)
(build deb from tmp-b)
or some similar scheme.
I imagine debhelper automates some of this :)
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