Re: Building Debian Completely From Source
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:52:39AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > There are quite a few, but make is a bad example, as it has included a
> > shell script to build itself for just this purpose.
>
> But its debian/rules is a makefile since the policy requires it
> to be so, right? :)
Yes, but building the complete Debian package is hopefully not necessary for
bootstrapping purposes, only to get a working make binary.
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- mdz
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