[email protected] writes: > Why do you have this line in all debian/rules? > ".PHONY: override_dh_auto_clean override_dh_strip"
debian/rules is a Makefile. override_dh_auto_clean is declared as a target with no prerequisites, so normally if there exists a file called 'override_dh_auto_clean', Make will see this file as being up-to-date, and the corresponding recipe will NOT be executed. .PHONY is used to tell Make that these rules don't build real files, thus their targets are never up-to-date and their recipes always run. This only matters if there's a file such as 'override_dh_auto_clean' in the build directory, which is pretty much never the case. In fact I've never seen a debian/rules file that is careful about this. Can't hurt, though. See http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Targets.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
