Bug#660193: developers-reference: please suggest debian/rules target name for preparing source
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Carsten Hey wrote:
> > prebuild:
> > test ! -d wafadmin
> > ./waf --help >/dev/null
> > mv .waf-*/wafadmin .
> > rm -f .waf-*/t.bz2
> > rmdir .waf-*
> > sed -n -i -e '1,/^#==>$$/ p' -e '/^#<==$$/,$$ p' waf
Maybe this would work?
prebuild: prebuild-stamp
(do interesting stuff here)
echo stamp > prebuild-stamp
clean: prebuild
...
get-source:
rm -f prebuild-stamp
...
dpkg-source will carry prebuild-stamp in the diff, and since it updates
the timestamp of anything it patches, and clean is a phony target, it
should not decide that prebuild is outdated and needs a rebuild.
If it does run, guarding the relevant shell stuff with
if ! [ -e prebuild-stamp ]
should be obvious enough and easier to understand than the other
techniques to avoid timestamp skews.
> have been 'extract-waf'. All this bug report is about is that in such
> cases maintainers should consider using prebuild as the target's name
> instead of inventing new ones.
To me it looks like "clean" should be able to do this job without any
changes to dpkg-source and friends.
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Henrique Holschuh
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