dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B

That is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit rules
(see bug #509756).

Apparently make treats the name of the Makfile as an automaticall
set up target, so this causes it to try to build the Makefile
even though it's up-to-date, and the implicit target
makes it run 'dh debian/rules'.

So, make that a no-op.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index bbabe30f323a9e738d04f93ca42fc75737b119e3..89403bd8960c71ec0173e3c47ea59da92e79bd86 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ debhelper (7.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
   * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
   * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
+  * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
+    which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
+    rules (see bug #509756).
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:26:36 -0500
 

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 03db2d00eca9a48246043b1a742f81ae5b383df3..ae14186711106479d1a20f78668a70749245e101 100755 (executable)
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/make -f
+#!/usr/bin/make -Bf
 # If you're looking for an example debian/rules that uses debhelper, see
 # the examples directory.
 # 
@@ -11,3 +11,5 @@
 # Not intended for use by anyone except the author.
 announcedir:
        @echo ${HOME}/src/joeywiki/code/debhelper/news
+
+.PHONY: build

diff --git a/dh b/dh
index 8938baa4dca41e05dca93845ca0670675ecdd553..39b117005b538b636d371d6b4398d79daaccd89d 100755 (executable)
--- a/dh
+++ b/dh
@@ -320,7 +320,11 @@ if (! @ARGV) {
        error "specify a sequence to run";
 }
 my $sequence=shift;
-if (! exists $sequences{$sequence}) {
+if ($sequence eq 'debian/rules') {
+       # make -B causes the rules file to be run as a target
+       exit 0
+}      
+elsif (! exists $sequences{$sequence}) {
        error "Unknown sequence $sequence (choose from: ".
                join(" ", sort keys %sequences).")";
 }