Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction
On Wed, Oct 28 2009, Tobi wrote:
> Julien Cristau schrieb:
>
>> asks for a password.
>
> Sorry, wrong link:
>
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-vdr-dvb/vdr/vdr/trunk/debian/make-special-vdr.sh
>
>> also nothing in what you said explains why you
>> can't do what you want using a makefile.
>
> Because make-special-vdr.sh needs to modify debian/rules itself. This
> way debian/rules doesn't get "contaminated" with stuff that goes
> beyond the scope of building the regular Debian package -e except for
> the shebang line.
This is what the make directive 'include' is all
about. Conditionally, include fileA or fileB. Each file is all
uncontaminated now.
This is not a technical shortcoming of using Makefiles.
manoj
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