From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Versioning of KVM Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:00:29 +0200 Message-ID: <455AC91D.4050704@qumranet.com> References: <20061115071251.GN28027@galon.ev-en.org> <455AC6D7.4060906@qumranet.com> <20061115075647.GP28027@galon.ev-en.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: KVM Return-path: To: Baruch Even In-Reply-To: <20061115075647.GP28027-xGn4Jn0woyz+OtfAA3OxFg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV