On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:45:21AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> I don't understand what has failed here. If the Makefile does not
> exist, no problem. If the Makefile does exist, there is a distclean
> target. What's the issue?

on a freshly downloaded and unpacked source, there is a Makefile
without a distclean target. Which the gets overwritten by
./configure later...

> Cheers,
> Shaun
> 
> On Nov 14, 2007 7:57 AM, Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Package: lcab
> > Version: 1.0b12-1
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > Sigh. The lintian warning "debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error"
> > must be the worst source of waste-of-time FTBFS bugs this year...
> > Same error on amd64, ia64, s390 and sparc buildds.
> >
> > > dpkg-buildpackage: source package lcab
> > > dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.0b12-1
> > > dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture armel
> > >  /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean
> > > rm -f build-stamp
> > > dh_clean
> > > [ ! -f Makefile ] || /usr/bin/make distclean
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/lcab-1.0b12'
> > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/lcab-1.0b12'
> > > make: *** [clean] Error 2
> > > dpkg-buildpackage: failure: /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean gave 
> > > error exit status 2

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