Re: build 2 similar binary packages from one source tree
Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
> maildrop source tree can be build with different build option to produce
> maildrop program in 2 ways for each arch.
> * set GID mail without restricted caller (maildrop)
> * set UID root with restricted caller for courier-mta
> (maildrop-courier) -- This is now missing in archive but we used to
> have it.
> Of course we can build 2 source packages to do this. But is there any
> easy clean way to do this without making 2 source packages with
> identical upstream tarball.
> Any pointer to a simple example which uses autotools as its build script
> is appreciated. (Program example simpler than glibc or linux kernel is
> appreciated.)
libpam-krb5 does this to build an MIT and a Heimdal version of the module,
using dh with upstream autotools.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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