Re: Thanks and > questions Was: Upgrade to Woody
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:47:22AM +0100, Paladin wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:28:52 +0100
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > First off, deb-make has been obsolete for years. If you want a modern
> > set of package building helpers, use dh-make and debhelper instead.
>
> Modern!? Well... I've just tested it... First I tried to use it like I
> used deb-make: ran dh_make, edited some files in the debian dir, compiled
> the source code as I wanted, doing a 'touch build' and, in the end, tried
> to run './debian/rules binary', but that didn't work!
Unfortunately, that's effectively zero information. Sorry, nobody can
help without real error messages.
> So, as a last resourt, I used the good old dpkg-buildpackage, but for
> some reason it broke at the part of documentation. I changed the
> debian/doc file and ran it again, but for my surprise it started ALL
> over again, even from ../configure!!! As far as I remember, with
> deb-make that didn't happen!!
dpkg-buildpackage has always run clean first. If you don't want that,
use -nc.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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