debian/rules questions and my plans for dual-build.

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

Sven Mueller wrote:
> Ondrej Sury wrote on 08/05/2006 10:15:
>   
>> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 14:35 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>>
>> There is a slight problem however.  You need to select default backend
>> in imapoptions file, which is not autogenerated (and other files are
>> autogenerated from it imapopts.{h,c} and man page).
>>     
>
> I worked around that problem with a small 'sed' call in lib/Makefile.in.
> Previously, the script to generate imapopts.{h,c} and the manpage just
> took lib/imapoptions from STDIN, now it still get's it from STDIN, but
> after sed replaced a placeholder in it with the selected default backend.
>
>   
>>>> moment (have been up since 30 hours or so now), so I would rather not
>>>> mess it all up now that it is currently working.
>>>>         
>>> There is no hurry for this, it is just that I have some experience with
>>> Cyrus upstream, and we'd certainly like to get this into 2.3 and if at all
>>> possible, 2.2 (and not just Debian-2.2).
>>>       
>> I just wanted to stop useless (in my POV) work on building two packages
>> - one with idled and one without.
>>     
>
> And I thank you for that. The work isn't as useless as you think though,
> at least in MHO, since it is a testbed to see how we could integrate the
> kolab2 cyrus-imapd package back into the main cyrus-imapd source
> package. This would remove quite some duplicated work. And since
> Benjamin seems to think along the same lines, he seems to keep working
> on the dual-build debian/rules. Wether it is a different ./configure
> option or a different set of patches applied doesn't make that much of a
> difference once we generally know how to do the dual-package build.
>
>   
Along those lines, I seem to be stuck. HMH, can you take a look? It
seems to be it's cleaning when it's not supposed to or something like
that, the install target vanishes when it comes time to install the files.

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