use a better way to ensure the command substituion works

diff --git a/auto_debuild.py b/auto_debuild.py
index 0db538871e70e43fb814c2bfcb0c506ffff05c87..0c466b41a7e272946e6057015be3b3d1b5696ccb 100755 (executable)
--- a/auto_debuild.py
+++ b/auto_debuild.py
@@ -35,12 +35,11 @@ def automakeRules(config):
        r = RulesFile()
        r.dh += ["--buildsystem=autoconf"]
        r.rules['auto_configure'] = [
-               '@dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE > /dev/null', # make sure this command runs successfully (and hope it does so again)
-               '@dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH > /dev/null', # make sure this command runs successfully (and hope it does so again)
-               './configure --build=$$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) ' +
+               'BUILD_TYPE=$$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) && ' + # doing the expansion beforehand ensures that we cancel if it fails
+               'MULTIARCH=$$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH) && '+
+                       './configure --build=$$BUILD_TYPE ' +
                        '--prefix=/usr --includedir=/usr/include --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info ' +
-                       '--libdir=/usr/lib/$$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH) '+
-                       '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/$$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH) '+
+                       '--libdir=/usr/lib/$$MULTIARCH --libexecdir=/usr/lib/$$MULTIARCH '+
                        '--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var ' +
                        ' '.join(config.get('automakeParameters', []))
        ]
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ def createDebianFiles(config):
        version = config['version']
        dbgPackage = config.get('dbgPackage', False)
        packageArchitecture = config.get('architecture', 'any')
-       # we return the list of files generated
+       # we return the list of files generated, so we need to know the architecture
        arch = getArchitecture(config)
        files = []
        # source format file
@@ -136,8 +135,8 @@ def createDebianFiles(config):
                r.rules['auto_install'] = ['dh_auto_install --destdir=debian/'+binaryName] # install everything into the binary package
                # for debug packages
                if dbgPackage:
-                       r.rules['strip'] = ['dh_strip --dbg-package='+binaryName+"-dbg"]
-                       r.rules['installdocs'] = ['dh_installdocs --link-doc='+binaryName]
+                       r.rules['strip'] = ['dh_strip --dbg-package='+binaryName+"-dbg"] # put debug files in appropriate package
+                       r.rules['installdocs'] = ['dh_installdocs --link-doc='+binaryName] # make the doc folder of the dbg package a symlink
                # dump it to a file
                r.write(f)
        mode = os.stat('debian/rules').st_mode