distclean, Re: proper way to link mplayer to shared ffmpeg , was Re: Bug#520113

[A Mennucc]

hi,

this is standard in Debian; 
1) distclean tree 
2) create the diff.gz .dsc 
3) build the package
4) pack into .deb

note that the above is idempotent: this AFAICR
is required by the policy

a.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:15:32AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> [...]
> 
> And while we're at it, why do you run distclean before configure?  It is
> completely pointless and fails of course because config.mak was not yet
> created by configure...
> 
> Diego



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