Eric Lavarde - Debian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to add a 'get-orig-source' target to my debian/rules file, and
> it looks like this:
>
> get-orig-source:
> debian/export-freemind-cvs.sh 0.8.0+01 FM-0-8-0
>
> It works quite fine, but the Debian policy manual specifies under [1] that
> "This target may be invoked in any directory", and my target can obviously
> only be invoked from the parent directory of 'debian', the given script is
> 64 lines long, so I wouldn't like to put it in extenso in the rules file.
>
> Is there something like a $(dirname $0) construct in 'make', or can I
> interpret the policy in the sense that the target may be invoked in any
> directory, as long as it contains the debian directory? ;-)
How about:
get-orig-source:
[ -x debian/export-freemind-cvs.sh ] \
&& debian/export-freemind-cvs.sh 0.8.0+01 FM-0-8-0 \
|| echo "Bad dir, sorry"
I am only not sure whether echo is POSIX-shell command.
dam
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