On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:25:38PM -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote: > How about instead requiring something like: the build-arch target must return > successfully or with a status of 2 (the standard make error status > for "target not found"), and in the latter case the build target must return > successfully. That is, if Build-Depends but not necessarily > Build-Depends-Indep are installed, the shell snippet > > debian/rules build-arch || (test $? -eq 2 && debian/rules build) > > must work and exit with a status of 0. > > This would make it possible for dpkg-buildpackage -B to be reliable while > allowing most (or even all?) of the current packages to stay as they are > until maintainers can add the recommended build-arch target.
That has been tried, but it didn't work for some reason. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
