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Re: source with main & contrib targets



On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 10:53:13PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
> One idea I had for motif applications: have the "build" and "binary"
> targets of "debian/rules" generate the free (lesstif) packages, and
> have "build-contrib" and "binary-contrib" targets for the dynamic
> motif packages.
> 
> That way anyone can rebuild the package using the normal proceedure,
> and people with motif can rebuild the optional parts with a few extra
> commands.

Unfortunately without some sort of standard way to do this,
it makes package recompilation difficult for people other
than the maintainer, especially people doing recompiles for
other architectures on mass.


Hamish
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