Jamie Strandboge <[email protected]> writes: > Section 4.9 of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html > states that there a number of required targets for debian/rules. > Specifically: > > "This file must be an executable makefile, and contains the > package-specific recipes for compiling the package and building binary > package(s) from the source. > .... > At a minimum, required targets are the ones called by dpkg-buildpackage, > namely, clean, binary, binary-arch, binary-indep, and build." > > If the policy is to be read very strictly, then all of the required > targets must be present in debian/rules, however, this is either > against the spirit of certain helper programs (eg CDBS and debhelper > 7), or breaks the functionality of the helper (eg, using a .PHONY line > will cause debhelper 7 to skip the target entirely).
Supplying a wildcard rule that matches those target names is a way of providing those targets. This is one of those things that seems to obvious to me to write down, but certainly if people have been confused, that's a good reason to write it down. > Adding something like the following would greatly reduce the ambiguity > of section 4.9: > > "A required target is one that is either explicitly listed in > debian/rules or supplied by a helper program." This would be incorrect -- the targets have to be supplied by debian/rules. They can, however, be implemented via wildcard rules. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
