On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 12:05 +0100, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Tixy writes: > > > As per the Debian FAQ [1] I am building packages from source using: > > > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b > > > > However, some source packages produce multiple binary packages, is there > > a way of just rebuilding the specific binary package I'm interested in? > > (I've tried this out in man pages and using Google.) > > > > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-sourcebuild > > > > Marked [OT] because I was to do this on a Debian derivative; but I am > > also proper Debian user as well :-) > > Usually this in not worth the effort, since the multiple binary packages > are just splitting the products of the compilation for the final users > to save installation space. That is, you compile all the project, which > is the slower part, and then the resulting files are splitted.
I guess I asked for the wrong thing :-) What I wanted was to avoid the hours compilation time for unwanted binary packages. (I'm compiling for ARM in an emulated environment or on slow hardware - and yes, I'm looking at other options to do true cross compilation.) > If you can avoid compile the parts that you are not interested in by > modifying the rules file, then you can select which things get splitted > by messing with the control and *install files. I'll take a look at this, I'm new to debs. I guess I was hoping that there was an existing facility to build just selected outputs, like you would get with make and a good makefile. Thanks -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295507767.2258.21.ca...@computer2.home