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Re: what's the right way to auto-create debian/control?



On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:09:26PM +0100, Samuel Mimram wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:47:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> >>The canonical way is naturally debian/control for target, as the rule 
> >>creates
> >>this file. This is being used all over (parted, kernel, etc), so i 
> >>believe it
> >>is the sane one to chose.
> >
> >
> >@OCamlABI@ can need to be substituted in more files than simply
> >debian/control. In the packages I've already ported to 3.09 for example
> >I had the need to substitute it many times in .dirs files and sometimes
> >in .files files.
> >
> >Thus I did something like the following in all packages of mine:
> >
> >  OCAMLABI := $(shell ocamlc -version)
> >  OFILES := $(patsubst %.in,%,$(shell ls debian/*.in))
> >  ocamlinit:
> >    for f in $(OFILES); do sed -e 's/@OCamlABI@/$(OCAMLABI)/g' $$f.in > 
> >    $$f; done
> >
> >I consistenly used "ocamlinit" target in all packages of mine, if you
> >like it we can recommend it.
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to put these lines in a file 
> (/usr/share/ocaml/autocontrol.make for example) in the package ocaml in 
> order to be able to do this by just an include of this file in the rules?

We could do this, do you volunteer for writing it ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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