On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > OVS needs to inspect the headers in the kernel source directory at build > time. Debian keeps moving the source directory relative to the build > directory and doesn't provide an obvious way to find the source directory, > so in the past we've used some name-based heuristics to essentially guess > where it is. > > This commit introduces a new heuristic that I hope will be more reliable: > extracting the source directory from the Makefile in the build directory. > In Debian's case, it looks like the Makefile generally contains a line of > the form "MAKEARGS := -C <srcdir> O=<outdir>". This commit extracts the > source directory from that line. > > To avoid regressions this commit retains the older heuristics as fallbacks. > > CC: 659...@bugs.debian.org > Reported-by: Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
It seems OK to me. How do other packages solve this problem? It seems like we have a particularly bad time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
