RE: why does gnome-based packages builds fine with cbds and not with dh7
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> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:22:47 +0600
> From: wrar@wrar.name
> To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: why does gnome-based packages builds fine with cbds and not with dh7
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> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:04:31PM +0000, Roelof Wobben wrote:
>> I have tried to build 2 packages from Cinnamon ( a gnome-based DE)
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>> When I do debuild on the by upstream made cdbs rules file both compiles fine.
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>> When I try to rebuild them by using dh7 which I like more then I see a lot of build-problems
>> Like a directory cannot be build because of permission errors a rule which cannot be find to
>> build a target.
> Not enough information to tell anything here.
I know that. For the permission error I already made a topic on this Ml.
For the missing rule to make a target I can make a topic.
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>> Schould it be true that it do not matters which build system you use ?
> Assuming you mean default helpers that try to guess what needs to be done,
> it does matter, because different helpers make different guesses.
> Of course if we are speaking about some custom rules then it is even more
> different.
oke, I have made a wrong assumption then.
But could you rewrite a cdbs to a dh7 and it works the same.
I get the idea that in for example the gnome.mk of cdbs a lot of things are already done where for dh7 I have to do it myself.
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