martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.30.1529 > +0200]: >> Well, I had never heard of anyone crazy enough to patch >> debian/rules at runtime... You're the first. > > Yeah! > > We are packaging zope-common from Ubuntu for Debian, patching it > with dpatch to make it easier later on for Ubuntu to base its work > on Debian, rather than the other way around (even though doko/Ubuntu > did most of the work so far).
There is a way to cause make to re-read a Makefile: Makefile remaking. debian/rules: debian/rules.in $(command that recreates debian/rules) --infile $< --outfile $@ $(command that recreates debian/rules) would somehow check whether it is a Debian build or an Ubuntu build (looking at environment variables, file existense, whatever) and change debian/rules accordingly. And make will reread the file after it has updated it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer