Martin Schulze wrote: > The reason is that inside of debian/rules a stamp-file is used > to indicate that the build process was successful. Unfortunately > this stamp-file is called 'build' - similar to the target I have > to use. As there are normaly no depends on the build target > make will refuse to run the build stage.
But... isn't that what the 'build' stamp is _for_? It makes sure that if you do "debian/rules build" again, nothing happens. The stamp is removed by "debian/rules clean", thus ensuring that the package is re-built the next time build is run. Building a package without doing a clean first is IMHO broken. The proper sequence is the one used by dpkg-buildpackage: 1. clean 2. create source package 3. build 4. create binary package(s) With any other sequence you cannot guarantee that the source package you made will actually build the binary package. > I'd like to make it policy that the stamp-file is NOT called > 'build' but something else, I still use stamp-build like in > the early days - the name is intentional. What does stamp-build do? Richard Braakman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
