Bug#309596: tetex-base: FTBFS in experimental: Endless loop.

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 20.05.05 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

Hi Florent,

> > Next log. Hope it is useful. I've put your debug log into rules and
> > rules.in. The commonstuff_update I've removed only from rules.in. I
> > firstly executed the clean target and after it ended the binary
> > target.
> 
> Perfect, thanks. So, it doesn't loop anymore. It appears that the
> weird behaviour was caused by the use of a phony target as a
> prerequesite of a real target.
> 
> The attached patch defines a sort of Make macro called
> update_commonstuff, that does what the phony target
> commonstuff_update did, but is called only in the clean and
> debian/rules targets. There is still a commonstuff_update phony
> target in case you want to invoke it from the command-line, but it
> is not a prerequesite of a real target anymore.
> 
Probably everybody knows that already. It builds now on

Linux preusse 2.6.10-co-0.6.2 #5 Sat Feb 5 10:19:16 IST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks for your work!
  Hilmar
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