Re: getting dh-make-perl working

[Jens Porup <jens@porup.com>]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:48:10PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:43:14PM +1100, Jens Porup wrote:
> 
>  > For instance, if I hand build my rules file, how do "execute it"?
>  > ./rules doesn't work. And 'make a-rules-target' doesn't work because
>  > make wants a file named Makefile.
> 
>  The rules file is located in a directory named "debian".  By design
>  it's a executable to be run from the parent directory:
> 
>  $ debian/rules build
> 
>  Just remember: "Debian Rules".

I tried that. This is what I get:

	$ debian/rules
	make: Nothing to be done for `build'.

The rules build target looks like:

	build: build-stamp

This rules file is being created on the fly by MakeMaker and dh-make-perl.

Jens