Re: Bug#229357: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:28:05PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
>>> Running debian-rules can always have side effects and can actively
>>> rely on them so a "--has-target" can not be implemented cleanly in
>>> make.
>>
>> I am proposing hooking into the logic that ultimately decides that
>> there is no such target in the Makefile and goes on to print "Don't
>> know how to make 'foo'. Stop.".
>
> $(shell ls temp-target-* && rm temp-target-*):
>
> Yes, that's broken, but there are your side effects, and you'll have to
> run this code if you want to make your --has-target work.

Or just a simple

include debian/rules.gen

while that is generated as needed.

MfG
        Goswin