On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:09:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I should probably shut up about this, but something has always > bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong). > > Take for example /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi, > The targets are like so: > > binary-indep: build install > > binary-arch: build install > > Both `binary-indep` and `binary-arch` depend on the build > target. Why would you want to do a build (which will have > arch-specific components) for `binary-indep` ?
Great question! Please check http://bugs.debian.org/72335 and consider seconding it, so that we can at long last begin to resolve this issue in a standard way. It proposes the (optional) introduction of two new targets: build-arch and build-indep which do -- guess what? And build will depend on both. (Of course, there may be packages for which splitting the build is infeasible. But that's not a problem; just do it all in build-arch and have build-indep depend on build-arch.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
