[PATCH V2 evolve-ext] debian: clean up rules file

Faheem Mitha faheem at faheem.info
Tue Sep 2 19:25:31 UTC 2014


Hi Pierre-Yves,

See below.

On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Pierre-Yves David wrote:

>
>
> On 08/17/2014 12:35 AM, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Faheem Mitha <faheem at faheem.info>
>> # Date 1408227240 -19800
>> #      Sun Aug 17 03:44:00 2014 +0530
>> # Branch stable
>> # Node ID 7568048c9776085be3af4cc05668a57664c08bcd
>> # Parent  f3867e60d0720f3f842f631317fa1cbb2ef3b5a4
>> debian: clean up rules file
>
> Can I get this as a series with each change in its own patches?

Ok. You want each of the 4 items below in their own patch?

>> * Add DH_VERBOSE, commented out, for debugging convenience.
>>
>> * Remove clean target before implicit match rule. This is redundant
>>    because it is a match-everything rule. Possibly a typo.
>>
>> * Replace build line with a dh_override_auto_build line. This is more
>>    in line with how dh is supposed to work. In particular,
>>    dh_auto_build is functionally equivalent to the repeated "dh build
>>    --with python2 --buildsystem=python_distutils" used currently.
>>
>> * Similarly, replace clean with override_dh_auto_clean. The current
>>    version does not call the default dh_auto_build, which is a bug.
>>    This is required in particular for cleaning the build directories.
>>
>> * Remove .PHONY line completely. This does not work in the case of
>>    implicit pattern matching rules as used by dh. Consider this example
>>    from Dr. Geoffrey Thomas:
>>
>>        faheem at orwell:/tmp/test$ ls -l
>>        total 16
>>        -rw-r--r-- 1 faheem faheem 17 Aug 16 20:27 blue.c
>>        -rw-r--r-- 1 faheem faheem 17 Aug 16 20:27 green.c
>>        -rw-r--r-- 1 faheem faheem 35 Aug 16 20:26 Makefile
>>        -rw-r--r-- 1 faheem faheem 17 Aug 16 20:27 red.c
>>        faheem at orwell:/tmp/test$ cat Makefile
>>        %: %.c
>>                gcc -o $@ $<
>>        .PHONY: blue
>>
>>        faheem at orwell:/tmp/test$ make red
>>        gcc -o red red.c
>>        faheem at orwell:/tmp/test$ make green
>>        gcc -o green green.c
>>        faheem at orwell:/tmp/test$ make blue
>>        make: Nothing to be done for blue'.
>>
>>    The Make manual
>>    (http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Phony-Targets) says
>>
>>        Since it knows that phony targets do not name actual files that
>>        could be remade from other files, make skips the implicit rule
>>        search for phony targets (see Implicit Rules).
>>
>> Thanks to the good folks on #debian-mentors on OFTC for instruction
>> and explanation in these matters.

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                                                                 Faheem



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