On 11/1/22 22:59, The Wanderer wrote:
> Can anyone advise me as to at least where I need to look to find out
> about this syntax and how to understand it? Advice about how to actually
> handle this dense and complicated control file (and its input
> control.in) properly, rather than in whatever hac
On 2022-11-01 at 10:42, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:32:05PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
>
>> jeremy ardley (12022-11-01):
>>
>> > cmake has inbuilt support for deb packaging
>>
>> cmake can have all the features it wants, if Debian does not
>> use it, then talking about it
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:32:05PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> jeremy ardley (12022-11-01):
> > cmake has inbuilt support for deb packaging
>
> cmake can have all the features it wants, if Debian does not
> use it, then talking about it is a waste of time.
>
> Do you have a source that shows
jeremy ardley (12022-11-01):
> cmake has inbuilt support for deb packaging
cmake can have all the features it wants, if Debian does not
use it, then talking about it is a waste of time.
Do you have a source that shows Debian uses cmake for its packaging?
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On 1/11/22 22:20, The Wanderer wrote:
This definitely isn't cmake. It's part of the Debian build system, and
if that depended on cmake, I'm all but absolutely certain that I'd know
it by now.
Also, this has nothing to do with the build system for the software
being packaged; it's entirely to d
On 2022-11-01 at 10:11, jeremy ardley wrote:
> On 1/11/22 21:59, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> However, in doing so I have run into a snag which I previously
>> skipped over and ignored: I don't actually know what the @variable@
>> syntax means/does, or what parses it. It's not Makefile syntax, as
>>
jeremy ardley (12022-11-01):
> If it's not Makefile, it's quite possibly cmake
I strongly doubt that Debian uses cmake for its packaging. Source?
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On 1/11/22 22:11, jeremy ardley wrote:
Search for some CMakeFiles.txt files to check if you need to explore
cmake further.
Wrong. My typing error. Look for CMakeLists.txt files.
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On 1/11/22 21:59, The Wanderer wrote:
However, in doing so I have run into a snag which I previously skipped
over and ignored: I don't actually know what the @variable@ syntax
means/does, or what parses it. It's not Makefile syntax, as far as I've
been able to determine. I haven't thus far found
As background: for reasons which I could explain but would probably take
a lot of going into and/or go off on a lot of tangents that wouldn't
help me reach my actual goal, I'm trying to build an older version of
the firefox-esr package in such a way that the resulting binary packages
have a differe
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