Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:24:49PM +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> On 2006-08-20 20:00:57, Guillem Jover wrote:
> >
> >If the current build system supports those arches, and yours does
> >not,
> You can hardly call it the "Current build system" as it is a number of  
> Makefiles in which you need, manually, to add some defines.

If it builds the software, then it is a build system.

Also, it's fairly easy to add such defines on the command line. Make has
supported things like "make FOO=bar build" for ages.

> What I have made is a generic package which just does not concerns  
> itself with other arches than for GNU/Linux. If people wants to compile  
> for *BSD or Solaris they can get the source tar-ball upstream. Also my  
> package does not take into considerations to build clients for Windows  
> or Mac OSX.
> 
> In my opinion it is a reasonable choice since the purpose of the  
> package is to create deb-packages?

I disagree.

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