Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
Jason> What I'd like to see is the ability to not compile some
Jason> packages from a multi-binary source package. I -really-
Jason> don't need socksified ssh, 'xjed', etc..
This is probably a lot harder than it sounds.
For programs that use GNU autoconf, it might be doable -- the
debian/rules makefile would just have to pass different arguments to
'configure' based on what target(s) it was building to signify that
it's only to build, say, the console version of a tool, but not the
X version.
And that's assuming the program you're building has an autoconf setup
that allows disabling of certain things. Many programs that use
autoconf just use a test to see if a library exists (like GTK+ or
GNOME) to see if they should build a certain target or not.
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