On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Paul Slootman wrote: > > If all I'm doing is trying fix something, usually just invoking 'make' > will do it (or some subtle variation that a glance at the rules file > will make clear). Once it builds, I do 'debian/rules clean' and then > restart the package build, to ensure that the final package can be > reproduced (restarting things from the middle sometimes leads to things > happening differently).
Yes, indeed. Just be thankful you're not a porter for RedHat: with `rpm', the *only* way to invoke a build that will end up in a binary package is to invoke a rule with `rm -rf <unpacked sources dir>' as its first command. Imagine building glibc, where everything works up until the *very* last file -- so you fix the bug stopping the last file from building, and you expect to be able to just restart make? Oh no. You restart the whole *damned* thing. Maybe you're not sure the fix will work? Prepare to rebuild all of glibc 20 times. Yes, you can edit the build script not to `rm -rf', but if you do, odd files tend not to get properly included in the rpm archive. However, this has been a preferable alternative to rebuilding for another 36 hours. (I could go on. RPM is shit, for porters at least.) -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )
