martin f krafft wrote:
> I see this construct in many debian/rules files:
>
> clean:
> [...]
>
> -$(MAKE) distclean
> ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" ""
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> endif
> ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" ""
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
> endif
>
>
> This has the effect that config.s{ub,tatus} are included in the
> generated .diff.gz file. Is this the intention?
Actually, it has the effect of updating the existing config.{sub,guess}
with the build machine's one, if available.
> I think they should
> not be part of the diff. What's the motivation here?
Basically there are two possible strategies for autotools-using
packages. Either distribute none of those files and define a build
dependency for autotools-dev, or distribute all of them and get
rid of the build dependency.
Thiemo
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