On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:20:42AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote : > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 02:07:49PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Lastly, I have a few questions : > > > > - A gzipped empty changelog file is created, but I do not understand > > where it is coming from. > Upstream or ./debian/changelog; probably installed by dh_installdocs, > perhaps influenced by ./debian/docs. Did you try exporting > DH_VERBOSE=1?
Thanks for the hint. I figured out that the empty changelog is the one from upstream, which is already empty in the original sources. I will add a rm somewhere in debian/rules... > > - The diff.gz contains some unwanted files named confing.sub and > > config.guess, which seem to be transferred from /usr/share by the > > rules file. however, I do not understand the purpose of this. > Read /u/s/d/autotools-dev/. Copying new versions of those files fixes > bugs and allows building on newly-supported architectures. > > > # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. > > -$(MAKE) distclean > This is evil, see #325372 and threads on -mentors. > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" > > cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub > > endif > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" > > cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess > > endif > The alternative to copying it in the clean target is to copy (or link) > it in the configure (or build) target, and remove it in the clean > target, which causes the .diff.gz to be shorter, more readable, and > more source-like. I have to admit that my knowledge of autoconf/automake in particular and C/C++ in general is much too low to understand the situation... This part of the rules makefile were created automatically when I ran dh_make, and I was very surprised that the if/endif statements can not be removed. If you have a trick to prevent the config.* files to enter the diff.gz part of the debian source package, please tell me. I'll understand later. Regards, -- Charles Plessy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
