On 15:49 Mon 20 Aug , Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@gmail.com>, 2012-08-18, 22:07:
> >>get-orig-source: TMPDIR :=$(shell (mktemp --tmpdir -d suckless-tools.XXXX))
> >>
> >>It looks like a nice hack, but... it will create a temporary
> >>directory every time debian/rules is run (not only for the
> >>get-orig-source target).
> >>
> >
> >Since it was with get-orig-source: target I thought like all
> >Makefiles it should be called only when we do debian/rules
> >get-orig-source but looks like it creates directory even when I
> >call debian/rules clean which I don't understand why!
>
> Apparently ":=" assignments are evaluated always exactly once,
> regardless of whether the variable is global or target-specific.
I see I didn't knew that. Thanks!
>
> >Do you have any other alternatives for this?
>
> The alternative is to use shell variables for this purpose. I find
> it convenient to have a separate script to create .orig.tar, and
> make get-orig-source just call it.
Done :-). (well you already know from d-m discussion)
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