[Build-common-hackers] Questions about pre-build target (and debian/control)

[Colin Walters]

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On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 05:19, W. Borgert wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> the comment to the pre-build target in buildcore.mk says:
>=20
> # This target is called before almost anything else happens.  It's a good=
 place
> # to do stuff like unpack extra source tarballs, apply patches, and stuff=
.  In
> # the future it will be a good place to generate debian/control, but righ=
t
> # now we don't support that very well.
>=20
> Are there any real-world examples for using this target?  What
> is meant with "generate debian/control"?  From which source?

I've seen several packages generate control from a file like control.in,
for e.g. substituting package names.  That might actually break CDBS at
the moment though (we'd need to regenerate the package variables, etc).


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