Bug#887664: openal-soft: FTBFS: nothing is built

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 at 09:34:40 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Simon McVittie wrote:
> >     .PHONY: build
> 
> isn't the "clean" rule called before anything else? Couldn't we just
> remove this directory in the "clean" rule?

In this specific package, there's nothing useful in that directory and
we could delete it. However, if the contents of the build/ directory
were important (for instance some GNOME packages use that directory for
Autotools files like config.guess) then deleting it wouldn't be a valid
solution. Declaring the build target as "phony" is meant to solve this,
and has worked since at least 2009, so I'd prefer to understand why
that's apparently stopped working recently.

    smcv