[Build-common-hackers] Improving documentation

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:05:29PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:52:41PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > (3)
> > Another package suffers from a sick upstream file layout, and so I'd
> > need to invoke make in ./foo/src instead of in . what cdbs seems to
> > do. I now could throw a ./Makefile into my package which in turns
> > invokes make in ./foo/src, but that kind of negates the positive
> > effects cdbs could have.
> > 
> > How am I supposed to handle this with cdbs?
> 
> You should be able to override it with:
> 
> DEB_BUILDDIR := ./foo/src
> 
> (look at makefile-vars.mk)

I will try that tomorrow when I get access to the system in question
again. But I suspect that this changes cdbs' beavior in more places
like I intend to do.

Greetings
Marc

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