On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 12:12:26PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > And conversely, of course there is at least one technical reason to prefer > > doing all the build in the 'build' target - the 'binary' target may be run > > as root (more likely fakeroot, I admit, but possibly actual root). > > > > It seems to me that policy should be changed, here. > > This may bmean the build target ends up doing part of the binary > target's work though. For example I have the packages sattrack > and sattrack-x11, which are built from the same source. I hacked > the Makefile so I can enable or disable the X support from debian/rules, > but the whole thing needs to be cleaned out and rebuilt for whichever > version. Hence I have a dummy `build' target. It already does weird stuff > during building with objects in other directories...
Any package which uses the GNU toolchain can be build in multiple directories like this: mkdir debian/build-no-x; cd debian/build-no-x; ../../configure --disable-x make mkdir debian/build-x; cd debian/build-x; ../../configure --enable-x make (or something like that, anyhow) This is a preferable technique where practicable (admittedly, it's heavy on the disk space). Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
