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authorArch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>2004-09-20 16:57:04 +0000
committerArch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>2004-09-20 16:57:04 +0000
commit4ae405e914578127efbe0eedcfec6d81780bee98 (patch)
tree5e6e1b6c67fcae7c5e458b65c26f8ed9de5b9cdc /README.make
parent10639577016904cccab77c311e7c0b4363997504 (diff)
JoeyH's dpkg::preconfig not working.
Author: jgg Date: 2001-03-05 21:09:12 GMT JoeyH's dpkg::preconfig not working.
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diff --git a/README.make b/README.make
index 7fd6ae5e8..c043f10f6 100644
--- a/README.make
+++ b/README.make
@@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ and configure substitutions across build makefiles is not used at all.
Furthermore, the make system runs with a current directory equal to the
source directory irregardless of the destination directory. This means
-#include "" and #include <> work as epected and more importantly
+#include "" and #include <> work as expected and more importantly
running 'make' in the source directory will work as expected. The
-environment variable or make parameter 'BUILD' set the build directory.
+environment variable or make parameter 'BUILD' sets the build directory.
It may be an absolute path or a path relative to the top level directory.
-By default build/ will be used with a fall back to ./ This means
-you can get all the advantages of a build directory without having to
+By default build-arch/ then build/ will be used with a fall back to ./ This
+means you can get all the advantages of a build directory without having to
cd into it to edit your source code!
The make system also performs dependency generation on the fly as the
@@ -49,10 +49,8 @@ the source directory but is logically divided in the following manner
examples/
include/
apt-pkg/
- deity/
obj/
apt-pkg/
- deity/
cmndline/
[...]
Only .o and .d files are placed in the obj/ subdirectory. The final compiled