Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to add a 'get-orig-source' target to my debian/rules file, and > it looks like this: > > get-orig-source: > debian/export-freemind-cvs.sh 0.8.0+01 FM-0-8-0 > > It works quite fine, but the Debian policy manual specifies under [1] that > "This target may be invoked in any directory", and my target can obviously > only be invoked from the parent directory of 'debian', the given script is > 64 lines long, so I wouldn't like to put it in extenso in the rules file. > > Is there something like a $(dirname $0) construct in 'make', or can I > interpret the policy in the sense that the target may be invoked in any > directory, as long as it contains the debian directory? ;-)
How about:
get-orig-source:
[ -x debian/export-freemind-cvs.sh ] \
&& debian/export-freemind-cvs.sh 0.8.0+01 FM-0-8-0 \
|| echo "Bad dir, sorry"
I am only not sure whether echo is POSIX-shell command.
dam
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