Re: override_dh_auto_configure not called

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> writes:

>   I am trying to only build doc as indep target. I have the following
> rules file (copy/paste from dh(1)):

> ...
> %:
> 	dh --parallel --with quilt --buildsystem=cmake $@

> override_dh_auto_configure:
> 	dh_auto_configure -- -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release
> -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=ON

> build: build-arch build-indep ;
> build-indep:
> 	$(MAKE) doc

> build-arch:
> 	$(MAKE) all
> ...

You can't mix and match targets like that.  You need to either use the
pattern rule and override system for all of a particular required target
like build, or you need to specify the commands inside the target and not
use the pattern rule (at least for that target).

Something like:

build-indep:
        dh --parallel --with quilt --buildsystem=cmake --before dh_auto_build
        $(MAKE) doc
        dh --after dh_auto_build

build-arch:
        dh --parallel --with quilt --buildsystem=cmake --before dh_auto_build
        $(MAKE) all
        dh --after dh_auto_build

may work (untested).

Note, however, that build-arch and build-indep aren't actually used by
anything, so unless you're just fixing this for manual invocations of
debian/rules, you need to instead hook into binary-arch and binary-indep
and stop building the package in the build rule.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>