Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:32:44AM +, Jules Bean wrote: > Actually Marcus's solution is far cleverer than mine. Of course, mine > doesn't rely on the makefiles being VPATH happy (is that an issue?). Not for us, because we use GNU make (and all other Unixes in the world should at least provide

Re: Help for a newbie package builder

1999-02-08 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-mentors, you wrote: > I'm trying to build a debian package; this is the first debian package I > try to build, so I need some help. > I'm reading "Debian packaging manual" and "Debian policy manual". That's > enough, or there is a better tutorial? The packaging manual looks as a > des

Re: Help for a newbie package builder

1999-02-08 Thread Will Lowe
> I'm reading "Debian packaging manual" and "Debian policy manual". That's > enough, or there is a better tutorial? The packaging manual looks as a try http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/maint-guide/index.html Will --

Help for a newbie package builder

1999-02-08 Thread Mauro Mazzieri
I'm trying to build a debian package; this is the first debian package I try to build, so I need some help. I'm reading "Debian packaging manual" and "Debian policy manual". That's enough, or there is a better tutorial? The packaging manual looks as a description of all the parts of a debian packag

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-08 Thread Mitch Blevins
Well, I know we've beat this one to death, but I still have a problem. I'd appreciate it if anyone can take the time to look at this. Make segfaults while trying to install. The rules file can be found here: http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/frustration/rules.txt And the rest of the package (*.orig.t

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-08 Thread Joey Hess
James Troup wrote: > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > build targets, it should still build stuff. I hate to contradict you, but either you or the packaging manual is wrong: For some pack

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-08 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:22:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > > > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > > > build targets, it should still bui

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-08 Thread Mitch Blevins
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:22:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > > > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > > > build targets, it should still build stuff. > > > > It

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:22:39PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > > build targets, it should still build stuff. > > It doesn't make sense to have the build