From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <533C348F.3010801@xenomai.org> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:02:23 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <533C32E3.3090309@steinkuehler.net> In-Reply-To: <533C32E3.3090309@steinkuehler.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Debian Package Building Broken List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Charles Steinkuehler Cc: xenomai@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.