Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>]

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:22:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> > > 
> > > No, the build target should be present and should do something,
> > > i.e. build the package.  Even if it only depends on the two other
> > > build targets, it should still build stuff.
> > 
> > It doesn't make sense to have the build target depend on build-a and
> > build-b because one of these builds would overwrite the other.
> > The only sane way to make the build target do something useful would
> > be for it to sequentially: build-a, install-a, build-b, install-b
> > 
> > Is the packaging manual wrong?
> 
> No, but you are probably not aware of the possibility to build in a
> subdirectory. GNU make supports a VPATH variable, which does that. Please
> refer to my other mail, where I spelled this out in detail.
> 
> mkdir build-a
> cd build-a
> ../configure --with-gnome
> make
> 
> works fine. This is the reason why you can have two builds at the same time
> without overwriting each other.

I see now.  This seems to work.  Thanks again.

-Mitch