Re: Should I always clean in debian/rules before making binary?
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:19:55PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> - In the install target, you would call something like
>
> $(MAKE) install prefix=debian/tmp/usr
It's easier to use DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp if DESTDIR support is
available; that way you get less confused by /etc.
> - From a policy point of view, it doesn't hurt to call clean before
> debian/rules binary, but if you do that, I'd do it in debian/rules,
> not by hand. However, I recommend not to do it.
I'd call it a bug to do that. I believe the buildds, and certainly
dpkg-buildpackage, do something morally equivalent to 'debian/rules
build && fakeroot debian/rules binary'.
Use dpkg-buildpackage (or debuild, a wrapper around it which sorts out
fakeroot and the like) rather than 'debian/rules binary'.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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