CR lines stripping in debian/rules

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Le 26/05/2011 09:02, Cesare Falco a écrit :
> Hello Manu and all,
> 
>     Could you elaborate a bit on the need of stripping carriage returns in
>     the mame source code ?
> 
> update patches -the "u" series- won't apply without CR stripping,
> and I'm "unofficially" packaging them.
> 
> Also, I remember gcc seldom had problems with such sources,
> but this could well have been fixed in recent releases.
>  
> 
>     I prefer to have debian/rules as short as possible
> 
> I agree, still it's just one line more in get-orig-source, and it comes
> in handy if we decide to include external patches (e.g. Wolfmame).

OK I see now you point. Could you regenerate the patches we have in
debian/patches, as they got broken by this commit ?

That's the burden of teamwork :)


> Speaking of get-orig-source: is there any particular reason to define
> so many make variables? It's a bit confusing IMHO.

Indeed it looks ugly, but I find it to be maintanable.

BTW is there any incentive for mame to try to distribute artwork and
cheat files ? If we they are not under a free license, we can still
download them with a helper ( a la flash plugin )

Manu