Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:30:58PM +0000, lumin wrote:
> I'm trying to package caffe as said [1] at debian-science@ .
> However I encountered a problem when writing debian/rules.
> 
> I'd like to take over the whole build process, so I wrote:
> 
>          32 override_dh_auto_build: build_cpuonly
>          33 
>          34 build_cpuonly: config_cpuonly
>          35     $(shell debian/my/00-fix-caffe-include-path-debian.sh)
>          36     $(MAKE) -j4 all
>          37     $(MAKE) -j4 test
>          38     $(MAKE) runtest
>          39 
>          40 config_cpuonly:
>          41     cp debian/my/Makefile.config.cpuonly Makefile.config
>          42 
>          43 .PHONY: config_cpuonly build_cpuonly

I would try this instead:

override_dh_auto_build: 
        cp debian/my/Makefile.config.cpuonly Makefile.config
        debian/my/00-fix-caffe-include-path-debian.sh 
        $(MAKE) -j4 all
        $(MAKE) -j4 test
        $(MAKE) runtest

Then, if it works, you can make it more complex until it stops working again.