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Re: debiandir



On Feb 17, 2004 at 00:14, Chris Cheney praised the llamas by saying:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:09:12PM +0100, Achim Bohnet wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've seen Chris updating debianrules CVS and wondered how to
> > handle this in other kde pkgs.   I had a look that svn trunk:
> > debiandirs is ...
> > 	o is not in svn
> > 	o created and removed by rules
> > 	o -included'ed in rules file.

This is all true. 
> > 
> > What confused me is that for the first run  -include debian/debiandirs
> > can't succeed because it not there.  The debian/debiandir rule
> > that creates the file does not fail (to force another build run).
> > Now configure would be called with an empty config_kde.
> > 
> > So shouldn't the debiandir rules read:
> > 
> > debian/debiandirs: admin/debianrules
> >         perl -w admin/debianrules echodirs > debian/debiandirs
> > 	false
> > 
> > to force another debuild run with an existing debian/debiandirs?
> 
> I'm no expert in makefiles but doesn't the include cause the
> debian/debiandirs call to be made? As far as I can recall those two
> snippets of the rules file are the same since I took over KDE in 2001.
> 

This is also true. :)
> Chris



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