On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 02:06:04PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > I'm very late to the party, but after reading the entire thread, I'd like to > discuss a more specific, but perhaps not uncommon, situation with regard to > cleaning and building again: > > We have a [still fairly] typical upstream package using Autotools. The tarball > includes some built files (e.g. documentation), i.e. make dist builds them (as > long as the right tools are installed) and make distclean deletes them. > dh_auto_clean by default runs make distclean if such a target exists. But > that's not the case until ./configure has been run, because until then, there > are no makefiles. So The first time you run debian/rules build, the shipped > version of the files will be untouched and used in the final package, but when > you then clean and build again, they will be deleted and rebuilt (or the > second build fails because of missing build dependencies). > > Besides building a package twice potentially failing, this can lead to the > second build being different from the first. So I'm thinking: > > 1. Do we generally want dh_auto_build to run make distclean, deleting files > that we otherwise wouldn't need to build? My autotools knowledge is rusty so I don't know what else except docs is included here, but docs is a perfect example of a thing that we normally *want* to rebuild. -- WBR, wRAR
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