At 11:42 -0400 1999-09-14, Ben Collins wrote:
I think he means that debian/rules should not run configure everytime you execute "debian/rules build". I personally hate porting something, and everytime the build dies and you need to change something small to try and fix it, starting the build runs configure again. These builds need something like: if [ ! -f stamp-configure ]; then \ ./configure ; \ touch stamp-configure; \ fi
Or better: config.status: ./configure --with-foo --disable-bar --enable-baz build: config.status # do whatever -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>