On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:18:55AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote......
> > > + -$(MAKE) distclean is evil, see Branden's bug against > > > lintian. > Did you look into this? It is #325372. Yes I did, and in all honesty did not follow it 100%. But that said, I've rewritten my rules file and now do not make reference to -$(MAKE) distclean. > If you update autotools foo at compile-time, then you should > consider removing them in the "clean" target; this avoids them in > the diff, which makes it that much shorter, cleaner, more > "source"like, and more readable. I believe I've achieved that now. > BTW, I think > > + ln -sf /usr/share/misc/config.sub . > > Is not well-behaved for sufficiently old and obscure ln; the . > needs to be a name, instead (but I don't have a reference for > this). Changed to respective names. > CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure > > The suggested way to do this is with ./configure > CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" .. check ./configure --help |head. Changed as you suggest. It's actually quite clear in the New Maintainers Guide, but I missed it. > Of course you can lose the #docbook-to-man example if you don't > intend to use it. It's gone now. Thanks again for all of the tips and taking the time to look it over. Kevin -- Kevin Coyner GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 http://rustybear.com/publickey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]