[Pkg-pascal-devel] FPC 2.6.4 is released.

[Paul Gevers]

On 27-03-14 20:45, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>>> Also removing many .o could reduce the size.
>> I think this is the ONLY reason we have.
> This a quite good reason.

Only if it is a lot, yes.

> So I definitely think we are allowed to do this, otherwise dpkg-source
> will detect untracked changes (date comment in Makefile) and abort
> build.

No, if you remove the Makefiles in your clean target, then dpkg-source
will not abort (it will give you the warning you mention below, but that
is harmless and correct).

>>> This avoids warnings about missing makefile after clean.

Sorry, I misunderstood this sentence the previous time.

>> The current clean does not work if a build is aborted halfway. So we
>> need to fix it. I also don't understand what you mean, did you ever have
>> a warning that the Makefile was missing?
> 
> Do you see?
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file fpcsrc/rtl/palmos/m68k/libcrt.a
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file fpcsrc/rtl/palmos/m68k/crt0.o
> ...
> We got the same think for make files.

But this is perfectly acceptable. That is what happens if you remove a
file in clean that is in the tar ball. No problem at all.

Paul


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