Hi! [ Was going over submitted reports pending replies or similar. :) ]
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 11:26:22 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Package: hello-traditional > > Version: 2.10-3 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > Here's a patch that tries to improve the rules targets. Here's the > > rationale: > > > > * Change each binary specific target to depend on its matching build > > target, so that there is no wasted work when doing an arch-indep or > > arch-dep build. > > * Make build a PHONY target, and stop using a stamp file. Those are > > an antifeature any time that make can already track if it needs to > > rebuild files. They also disallow modifying a file and trying to > > rebuild the package w/o first cleaning it like with: > > «dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc» > > * Split the configure step into its own target and use config.status > > as its stamp file, because configure will run every time otherwise, > > and its an artifact created by configure. > I will consider suggestion 1. I don't like suggestions 2 and 3. > When I have a little bit more of time I'll explain. I'd certainly be interested to read about your position regarding items 2 and 3! Thanks, Guillem
