Re: obj-x86_64-linux-gnu / DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE / cmake

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>, 2011-09-11, 21:08:
> > > I would like to know if there is an easy way to get the PATH of the 
> > > build tree in case of a dh --buildsystem=cmake build ? The name 
> > > generated is obj-x86_64-linux-gnu on my machine, and comes from the 
> > > value of DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE.
> > Looking at debhelper source, it's indeed obj-$DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE. 
> > (Which is an odd choice, DEB_HOST_* would make more sense. Also, I 
> > don't quite understand why any machine type has to encoded in the 
> > directory name…)
> >
> > > However I could not find if there was a way for me to retrieve this ?
> > Why do you need it in the first place?
> What do you do when you need to install files produced by the build 
> system but not installed. *.install can easily reference source file, 
> or installed files (debian/tmp/*), but this is un-easy to reference 
> file produced by make (before make install).

Would something like "obj-*/path/to/anything" do the trick for you?

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Jakub Wilk