On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Bastien ROUCARIÈS <roucaries.bastien+deb...@gmail.com> writes: > >> get-orig-source should include an example. > >> If you use uscan this is safe and policy compliant (maybe opening a bug >> against dpkg-dev to get this rule by default) > >> cd "$(subst ",\",$(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))/.." && uscan --destdir >> $(subst ",\",$(CURDIR)) #" > >> We have a bug report for lintian asking for checking unsafe uscan, so I >> was creating a compliant version > >> A footnote is suffisant > > I'm reasonably fluent in shell and make, and I still have absolutely no > idea what that does.
you call the rules with something (using shebang or directly) make -f somepath/package/debian/rules, uscan need to be excuted on somepath/package/. So you need to get the f parameter. Make get it in last entry of $MAKEFILE_LIST, so, $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)) that return somepath/package/debian/rules, now we get the dir using $(dir ) and get one level up by .. $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))/.. Unfortunatly we need to escape, some char so use ' to quote and escape it using $(subst ',\', $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))/..) now i can cd: $(subst ',\', $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))/..) and do a uscan with DESTDIR (here the local dir) escaped: Finnally: cd $(subst ',\', $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))/..) && uscan --destdir $(subst ",\",$(CURDIR)) #' the #' at end if for emacs syntax highlight Bastien > > Is there any way that we could help people out and have the correct thing > to do be much, much simpler? Just a single command invocation? > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> * do not expect something with name that include space
