[maemo-developers] maemo-optify with Chinook / conditionals in debian/rules

[From: Cornelius Hald]

After a lot of trying I found out the the following works:

if [ `which maemo-optify` ]; then maemo-optify; fi

Cheers!
Conny


On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 20:50 +0100, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to optify Conboy and noticed that maemo-optify does not exist
> on Chinook. So I've added the build dependency like that:
> 
> Build-Depends: [...] maemo-optify | maemo-version-dev (<< 5.0)
> 
> So far so good, but now I have to make the call inside debian/rules
> optional as well. Unfortunately I completely fail to do that. I've tried
> to add
> 
> which maemo-optify && maemo-optify
> 
> and
> 
> [ -e /usr/bin/maemo/optify ] && maemo-optify
> 
> Both work if maemo-optify is available, but fail if it is not available.
> The log looks like this:
> 
> [...]
> dh_install --sourcedir=debian/tmp
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> dh_link
> dh_strip
> dh_compress
> dh_fixperms
> dh_installdeb
> dh_shlibdeps
> dh_gencontrol
> which maemo-optify && maemo-optify
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> 
> Does someone know why this is not working? It looks like 'make' does not like this construct, but what's the alternative?
> 
> Thanks!
> Conny
> 
> 
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