Re: Versioning of KVM

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Baruch Even wrote:

 

>> My current tree has fixes for most of the problems.  I'll look at the clean targets (why are they necessary for 
>> packaging?)
>>     
>
> Some of the packages are being built by other computers, I'm building on
> my machine only the i386 version and the amd64 is built by an
> auto-builder. The clean target is needed since otherwise there are the
> .d files which have absolute paths for my machine and my build
> environment, this will kill the auto builder. In my case I build for
> Debian testing on my machine and then use a chroot to do a clean build
> for Debian unstable, the .d files killed the chroot build as well.
>
> The Debian build process does a clean before it starts the build to make
> sure we do a pristine build every time to avoid such problems. It
> doesn't always work when upstream clean target doesn't really clean.
> Normally there is a clean target and distclean to really clean the
> package back to distribution state.
>
>   

I don't understand.  If you start from an empty directory and unpack the 
archive there, you shouldn't have any problems.  I don't see how .d 
files can move from your machine to the autobuilder unless you added 
them to the archive.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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