Package: cdbs Version: 0.4.28-1 Severity: minor Packages that use cdbs, e.g. using something like
#!/usr/bin/make -f include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk as debian/rules do have a configure target. However, it usually just says "nothing to be done for `configure'". Only when the build target is invoked is the ./configure script executed. I think cdbs should either not create a configure target (which is not mandatory), or better actually make this target useful, and create the Makefiles in this step. I need this rather often for QA work: I'm mainly concerned with problems building documentation, and in this field it's not needed to build the binaries. Instead, all you need is a Makefile in the doc directory, and then you can start debugging. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
