[Openstack-devel] OVS 2.0.1 packages in Debian

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:03:05PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 01/10/2014 01:47 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Oh, I guess I need the file from this include in debian/rules?  (But
> > then why does the line start with -?)
> >         -include /usr/share/openstack-pkg-tools/pkgos.make
> 
> Forgot to explain that...
> 
> If you do:
> -include <bla>
> 
> then if <bla> can't be found, then make simply ignore it. So we get
> pkgos.make with the gen-orig-xz target *only* if we have the
> openstack-pkg-tools installed, which is nice in our case (because
> strictly speaking, we don't need it to build, but it is convenient in
> order to generate the orig.tar.xz file).

I knew about -include, but I didn't realize that this particular
target was provided by openstack-pkg-tools, or that that was the
reason it was an optional include.  Thanks for the clarification.