Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:07:02 +0100, Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr> said:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:37:25AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>> > Bzzzt. It is documented to be a Makefile. That _is_ the
>> > interface definition.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, could you define "Makefile"? The standard I know
>> of for Makefiles is at:
>> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/make.html>
>> Is that the standard Policy refers to?
> Given the earliest copyright of 2001, that's quite definitely not
> something the original writer referenced :)
The single UNIX spec that is referred to above is a derivation
of the POSIX spec, which far predates the Debian policy (it also
predates Linux, but that is besides the point).
manoj
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