Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > If I hit a bug in a v1 source package I often do > > apt-get source foo > cd foo-* > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt debug nostrip" dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > sudo debi ../foo*.changes > > and then run the program inside M-x gdb RET of emacs. If I want to > test a possible fix I then just use the same emacs to modify files and > then rerun dpkg-buildpackage and debi to test my changes. > > The above is not really usable with v3 source packages: apparently > dpkg-buildpackage modifies the timestamps of source files and emacs > complains that these files have changed on the disk. Should I just > modify emacs to ignore this warning? > > I asked my question on #debian-devel and was given the suggestion that > I should copy the source tree to a different directory for build. This > works but is slow and also has the problem that M-x gdb will open > files of the build directory instead of the original one. If I then > accidentally modify something in the build directory it will get > overwritten by the build. > > Have you tried adding "-b" to dpkg-buildpackage as well? I think that should do it (unless the build/clean does weird things). ~Niels
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