Hi Mats;

Am Freitag, 13. April 2007 17:25:06 schrieb Mats Erik Andersson:
> Fellow Beringians,
>
> I am growing fairly irritated with buildtool.pl
> for the following developmental reason. I need
> to repeatedly rebuild a package that is not
> served by the Bering repository, but manually
> downloaded and thus marked as having empty Server.
> Therefore the intended functionality
>
>   ./buildtool.pl -f build whatever
>
> aborts its action prior to any compilation.
> Instead I can make do with three steps:
>
>    1)  Remove .build in source/whatever/

You can take care of this in your buildtool.mk file in the section 
for "buildclean"

>    2)  Delete a single line "build whatever"
>        in conf/installed
>
>    3)  ./buildtool.pl build whatever
>
> It is the second step that really bugs me.
> Please tell me the proper way to rebuild
> my package more efficiently.

The second step is necessary. It has been discussed in the early days of 
buildtool developement to couple it with a buildclean, but it has never made 
into code.

buildtool was a huge step forward to compile and create packages from source, 
but shurely there is still room for improvements.

kp

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