Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

[Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:37:54 am David Paleino wrote:
> Il giorno Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:02:21 -0500
>
> Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > On Sunday 17 February 2008 4:04:41 am Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:39:03PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> > >
> > > To find the path, $(dir $_)/script can be used, to make sure it works
> > > from any directory.  (Attribution: I learned that from reading your
> > > uscan invocation below. ;-) )
> >
> > Thanks. This was exactly what I wanted to do.
> >
> > This had me stumped for a long time but now I'm free to use whatever
> > scripting language I want and supply whatever options I want for the
> > external scripts.
> >
> > One thing though, the line could be written as "$(dir $_)script" since an
> > extra "/" is added at the end for "$(dir $_)". I tested this using
> > "@echo $(dir $_)".
>
> Why not using $(CURDIR)? It should give you the dir where debian/ is
> located (i.e. $(CURDIR) == debian/../). I've always used it in my
> debian/rules files, and never had any problem.
>
> Kindly,
> David

$(CURDIR) gives you the current working directory you are in, not where 
debian/ would reside unless you were in the package's top directory anyway.

-- 
Regards,
Andres