dpkg-buildpackage and new "-indep" debhelper options

[Anton Gladky]

Ok, thank you for clarifying.
I have subscribed myself to the bug 629385

Anton



On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:17:47PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote:
>> Thank you, Roger, for your extended response.
>>
>> >  What is preventing you from building the docs in build-indep?
>> I am trying it to do it now, using new -indep and -arch options.
>>
>> > Are you using the latest debhelper?
>> Yes, 8.9.11
>>
>> I have simplified debian/rules:
>>
>> ====================================
>> #! /usr/bin/make -f
>> BUILDDIR = $(CURDIR)/debian/build
>>
>> %:
>>       dh $@ --buildsystem=cmake --builddirectory=$(BUILDDIR)
>>
>> override_dh_auto_build-indep:
>>       cd $(BUILDDIR); $(MAKE) doc
>> ====================================
>>
>> But I still have a problem. Docs are building with "-B" option.
>>
>> "dpkg-buildpackage -B" calls "dh build", but it should call "dh
>> build-arch", isn't it?
>
> Ah, yes.  You might want to look at #629385
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629385
>
> The short story is that dpkg-buildpackage currently doesn't
> call build-arch or build-indep; it just calls build.  The
> above bug is discussing how best to enable their use.
> Hopefully this should be resolved soon so we can use the
> targets properly.  In the interim, you can either do the
> build in the binary-indep target (nasty), or just deal
> with the -indep target always being called unnecessarily.
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
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