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Diffstat (limited to 'Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem.pm | 27 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem.pm b/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem.pm index 7354963d..7f7465a4 100644 --- a/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem.pm +++ b/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem.pm @@ -109,18 +109,27 @@ sub _set_builddir { } # This instance method is called to check if the build system is able -# to auto build a source package. Additional argument $step describes -# which operation the caller is going to perform (either configure, -# build, test, install or clean). You must override this method for the -# build system module to be ever picked up automatically. This method is -# used in conjuction with @Dh_Buildsystems::BUILDSYSTEMS. +# to build a source package. It will be called during build +# system auto-selection process inside the root directory of the debian +# source package. Current build step will be passed as an additional +# argument. The value returned must be 0 if the source is not buildable +# or a positive integer otherwise. # -# This method is supposed to be called inside the source root directory. -# Use $this->get_buildpath($path) method to get full path to the files -# in the build directory. +# Generally, it is enough to look for invariant unique build system +# files shipped with clean source to determine if the source might +# be buildable or not. However, if the build system enhances (i.e. +# derives) from the other auto-buildable build system, this method +# may also check if the source has already been built with this build +# system partitially by looking for temporary files or other common +# results the build system produces during the build process. The +# latter checks must be unique to the current build system and must +# be very unlikely to be true for either its parent or other build +# systems. If it is determined that the source has already built +# partitially with this build system, the value returned must be +# greater than the one of the SUPER call. sub check_auto_buildable { my $this=shift; - my ($step) = @_; + my ($step)=@_; return 0; } |