Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:24:49PM +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
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> 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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