Hi Martin, martin f krafft wrote: > dh_make puts this into the debian/rules clean target: > > -$(MAKE) distclean > -test -r /usr/share/misc/config.sub && \ > cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub > -test -r /usr/share/misc/config.guess && \ > cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess > > first of all, am i right in assuming (empirically) that a leading > hyphen causes make not to fail if the command exits with non-zero? Yes. > and second, what are these /usr/share/misc/config.* files, and why are > they precopied to a package. i don't have those files on my system, > and i noticed no problems. are they there to speed up the configure Sure. WIth the - it doesn't fail. > run by giving some answers that are global to the systems? No. config.sub and config.guess are files beloging to much ./configure scripts helping them to determine the architecture compiling on/for. Unfortunately, many upstream do not hold them up to date, so much of them do not know architectures like s390.... SO, these files (belonging to package autotools-dev) are copied in the package to actualize them to get the others architectures regognized. apt-get install autotools-dev, and read the doczmentation. If you really want that above to work you've to build-depend on autotools-dev otherwise I suppose the buildd's will not find them and not copy them... Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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