Re: [Xenomai] Debian Package Building Broken

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On 04/02/2014 05:55 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> While following the instructions to build a Debian package from git:
>
> http://xenomai.org/index.php/Building_Debian_packages
>
> ...I ran into a problem.  There is a "configure" file in the git
> repository that looks like it shouldn't be there.  The build scripts
> delete this file, then complain that the local working copy has
> modifications and refuse to build the package.
>
> I was able to work around this by just deleting the configure file and
> committing the changes, but you might want to do this upstream as well.
>
> I am building from the 2.6.3 tag, but the configure file still exists in
> master:
>
> http://git.xenomai.org/xenomai-2.6.git/tree/

No, the configure file is in the tree, this is intentional, this avoids 
requiring people which compile the package from the git tree to have the 
autotools installed. If debian/rules does not support that, it should be 
fixed to support it.

-- 
					    Gilles.