fakeroot debian/rules clean works! Is this standard way of cleaning up the build directories?
On Friday 25 May 2001 13:26, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:13:14AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:49:31PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > > > I'm sorry, I meant dh_clean do not remove this directory. So if > > > package is foo, then the build process would create debian/foo and > > > install all the files in that directory tree. Upon dh_clean it should > > > remove debian/foo, but it doesn't. If it was called debian/tmp it > > > seems to work, but then I need to add -Pdebian/tmp to most dh_* > > > commands in debian/rules. > > > > Do you have: > > > > export DH_COMPAT=3 > > > > in your rules file? I adopted a package that didn't and found it tried to > > work in debian/tmp , but when I added the above to the top of my rules > > file it started using debian/package_name . > > You also need to build-depend on debhelper >v3: > Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0) > > Because DH_COMPAT=3, makes it use debhelper v3 features. > Also, the best solution is to put dh_clean as one of the targets for clean: > in debian/rules. That way, fakeroot debian/rules clean, takes care of it. > > My clean: line in debian/rules looks like: > > clean: > dh_testdir > dh_testroot > rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp > > # Clean everything up afterwards. > -$(MAKE) clean > > dh_clean > > So, fakeroot debian/rules clean, thoroughly cleans it. > > Hope this helps, > > :) d -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alwyn Schoeman Prism Wireless The Internet will destroy the barriers that are isolating people from decent opportunities based on where they happened to have been born, and this will be a fundamental transformation of our global society that will greatly discomfort a lot of worthless people. Then those same worthless people will create new barriers based on access to source code, licenses, software permissions, etc. Sigh. -- Hans Reiser
