Re: Building package twice

[Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>]

On 08/12/25 11:50, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> To do all of that I'd need to configure, compile and install the source 
> code twice when building the package, with different configuration 
> options. Is there a reasonably simple way to do that, possibly with 
> debhelper? Are there other packages doing this I can take as an example

Have a look at this version of `d/rules` for bash (it builds twice, once 
dynamically, once statically), in particular 
`override_dh_auto_configure` and `override_dh_auto_build`:

https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/bash/-/blob/rules-std-dh/debian/rules?ref_type=heads#L70-91

The trick is to first run `dh_auto_configure` with two different 
--builddirectory= arguments (and two different sets of configure flags, 
obviously), then to run `dh_auto_build` twice, once in each 
--builddirectory=.

Hope it helps,

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Gioele Barabucci