I demand that Loïc Minier may or may not have written... > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> But I disagree that debian/rules is necessarily the place where it >> belongs. It looks like cruft/bad design to have the same snippet of code >> in all packages.
> Perhaps this should be fixed in another way then? For example a shared > Makefile included by all debian/rules (if they are a makefile :) -- ala > cdbs, but with a simple documented interface such as documenting that > this will set *FLAGS based on deb_build_opts. e.g. > /usr/share/dpkg/flags.mk with: > CFLAGS += -Wall -g -O$(if $(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)),0,2) That looks reasonable to me. However, care should be taken to avoid ending up with cdbs-buildpackage ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Kill all extremists! I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less.