On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 12:12:26PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > And conversely, of course there is at least one technical reason to prefer > doing all the build in the 'build' target - the 'binary' target may be run > as root (more likely fakeroot, I admit, but possibly actual root). > > It seems to me that policy should be changed, here.
This may bmean the build target ends up doing part of the binary target's work though. For example I have the packages sattrack and sattrack-x11, which are built from the same source. I hacked the Makefile so I can enable or disable the X support from debian/rules, but the whole thing needs to be cleaned out and rebuilt for whichever version. Hence I have a dummy `build' target. It already does weird stuff during building with objects in other directories... Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
