Some number of debian/rules files invoke make as: #! /usr/bin/make -f ^--- trailing space rather than #! /usr/bin/make -f While this does not break things on Linux, it *does* cause breakage on NetBSD, due to differences in the script handlers. So far, the number of packages isn't terribly high - but it's a couple, in under a hundred packages, which (if it holds - no good way to tell) is potentially a few hundred packages, before all is said and done. Is there anything which will break if the space is *not* there? Or, for that matter, is there anything formally stating that it is, or isn't, allowed to be there? While it is theoretically possible to adjust the script handling under NetBSD, I really don't relish the idea of trying to do it and make sure that it won't break; however, if the concensus is that this really needs to be fixed at the OS level, I'll see what I can figure out. (For what it's worth, the failure mode is 'make: : No such file or directory'; I think NetBSD is seeing the extra space, and adding an empty string to the argument list, since that is what is after the space). -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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