Re: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:09:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> I should probably shut up about this, but something has always
> bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong).
>
> Take for example /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi,
> The targets are like so:
>
> binary-indep: build install
>
> binary-arch: build install
>
> Both `binary-indep` and `binary-arch` depend on the build
> target. Why would you want to do a build (which will have
> arch-specific components) for `binary-indep` ?
Great question! Please check http://bugs.debian.org/72335 and
consider seconding it, so that we can at long last begin to resolve
this issue in a standard way. It proposes the (optional) introduction
of two new targets: build-arch and build-indep which do -- guess what?
And build will depend on both. (Of course, there may be packages for
which splitting the build is infeasible. But that's not a problem;
just do it all in build-arch and have build-indep depend on
build-arch.)
Julian
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