Please let me know if r37942 fixes the issue for you.
On Sat Jun 07 2014 at 6:17:09 PM, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll look into it now.
>
> I've described why it gets invoked every time :-)
>
> Essentially, deb.make gets included every time, and as part of assignment
> of a value to one of the variables, dpkg gets invoked. ("What are our
> dependencies? Let's look at which *Debian package* version of gnustep-make
> is installed.")
>
> Should it be calculated only when the target building a Debian package is
> invoked? Yes. How can you do that? As far as I know, you can't, really. You
> can't calculate a variable conditionally, only if a certain target will be
> built. (If that's possible, I'd love to be educated on how to do it.)
>
> If I understand it correctly, it's possible to 'delay' evaluation of
> $(shell command_here). For what I'm using this calculation of the
> environment variable, however, that is not the case; the values are
> exported into environment to be written into a Debian control file by a
> sub-script.
>
> Luckily, however, the variable export had to be done in a 'sub-make'.
> (Otherwise the 'export' statement in the top level of a makefile breaks the
> build system completely). The target being executed in sub-make is only
> visible if an environment variable is set appropriately -- it's hidden
> behind an if. So what I will reluctantly do is move the calculation of this
> variable into the 'else' block of this if.
>
> On Sat Jun 07 2014 at 6:09:39 PM, Riccardo Mottola <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ivan Vučica wrote:
>> > Whoops. This sounds like it's my mistake while trying to detect
>> > version of gnustep-make on the machine, to generate dependencies for
>> > binary Debian packages.
>> >
>> > In theory, it should not be ever happening unless you punch in "make
>> > debfile" or "make deb". Unfortunately I messed up.
>> di dyou have time to investigate this futher? I noticeed that when
>> building on debian (from source, plain, not inside dpkg) I get warnings
>> about the parameter used.
>> Why do you always invoke it??
>>
>> Riccardo
>>
>
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