[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Schwarz) wrote on 05.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The idea is to create the debian/rules file by a macro processor. (Since
> automake is used to create Makefiles and debian/rules is a Makefile,
> someone suggested to use it. However, doubts have been presented that it
> does not fit exactly to our purposes. Someone would have to do some
> experiments on this. If it doesn't fit, we can use or write another macro
> generator.)
I thought there was already consensus that automake was a very bad match
for this.
I'm currently experimenting with writing an autodeb tool; very early stage
yet, absolutely no promises at all of any kind. Any- and everyone is
encouraged to write a different one. (Didn't Ian himself want to do it?
He's surely better suited to that than I am :-))
My game plan:
analyse debmake and similar packages for what to do
do an autodeb-scan that creates debian/auto.proto
which is a proposed debian/auto
do an autodeb that creates debian/rules (and maybe other stuff) from
debian/auto, possibly via some .new prefix so people can verify it
does what they want first
do everything in perl, debian/auto uses Data::Dumper format to store
settings
After working some hours on it today, I've come as far as producing stuff
like this:
# generated by ./autodeb-scan
$auto1 = {
"USERNAME" => "Kai Henningsen",
"POLICY" => "2.3.0.1",
"CONFIGURE" => "",
"CLEAN" => "make clean",
"DEBIAN" => "",
"VERSION" => "0.0",
"INSTALL" => "make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp",
"EMAIL" => "[EMAIL PROTECTED]",
"DOCS" => [],
"PACKAGE" => "autodeb",
"DATE" => "Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:22:44 +0100",
"PACKAGES" => [
"i:autodeb",
"o:autodeb-doc"
]
};
No rules generation yet.
This is obviously all highly subject to change. It's not as if I didn't
have lots of ideas how to change it :-)
> This would have the advantage that every action would be included
> explicitely in the debian/rules file instead of hidden into some
> utilities.
Well, some could still be in well-defined utilities, if there's stuff
that's hard to do in a makefile. (I don't know yet if there will be
something like that.)
> It would be nice if we could find one (or more) volunteers to do some
> experiments on that issue.
Here where the hand is waving :-)
MfG Kai
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