On 20001023T101336+0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:20:23PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > In one package (malaga) I finally settled on taking advantage of VPATH: > > I simply configured and built it in different directories for different > > set of options. I don't remember whether I had to patch upstream build > > system, but if I did, the patch was small in any case. > Very small? I found a 20k diff for 300k source, mostly configuire patches.
The Debian diff includes patches to generated files to avoid unnecessary build-time dependencies to autoconf and friends. The patch to the actual source files was small, IIRC. > But the main difference is, you are not using debhelper at all. I don't see why the same ideas cannot be used with debhelper. I do have that much faith in Joey Hess :-) However, I cannot tell you how to do it. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%
