Hi, I've noticed some problems with packages that I took over from others or that I'm packaging as security manager. I normally issue a command similar to "make -f debian/rules build" to get the package compiled. I'm normally doing this with new packages before I add my patches. After I've added my patches often this command doesn't re-build the files. The reason is that inside of debian/rules a stamp-file is used to indicate that the build process was successful. Unfortunately this stamp-file is called 'build' - similar to the target I have to use. As there are normaly no depends on the build target make will refuse to run the build stage. I'd like to make it policy that the stamp-file is NOT called 'build' but something else, I still use stamp-build like in the early days - the name is intentional. Comments? Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Unable to locate coffee, operator halted. -- Stefan Farsch /
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