Re: How thorough must the clean target be?

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:53:55PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Something which is less a good idea but it useful with packages
> with eon-old libtool is that one:
> 
> Build-dep on libtool and do:
> printf '#!/bin/sh\nexec libtool "$$@"\n' >libtool
> 
> This way the package use /usr/bin/libtool which is up-to-date.

I really meant to say:

Build-depend on libtool and do in debian/rules after running 
configure/ltconfig and before running make:

printf '#!/bin/sh\nexec libtool "$$@"\n' >libtool

This way the build system use the latest libtool.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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