[Pkg-pascal-devel] Heads up for my changes to d/rules of fpc

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Abou,

On 10-11-15 23:21, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>> The problem with the old set, albeit
>> being fundamentally correct

> The way the "old" clean target was working took me too long time to achieve. I
> consider that the right way to go.

As mentioned, I agree.

> Sometimes one can get into horrible issues
> because a clean target does not work correctly. Also how can you ensure
> reproducible builds if you clean target is potentially not correct?

Just so you are aware, that is not how reproducible builds work. The
starting point is the same, so if you have a potential issue, all the
builds will experience that issue and the result can still be the same.

> I agree that it could be nice if we can skip this sometimes, so I'd recommend an
> environment variable that allows selecting between both behaviors while keeping
> default to the old behavior.

Now that is a great idea. I should have thought of that myself. It is
probably just one line of code in my current implementation, updating
the documentation is more work ;).

> That is indeed a nice feature. Is it really related to 1) or completely
> independent?

I believe it is fully independent.

Paul

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