On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > So, an idea: what about checking "make -f /dev/null blah 2>/dev/null" first, > > for some portability? > > What 'blah' are you planning to use that's guaranteed to not have broken > side-effects in some cases on Debian packages? How about: "blah$((uptime;ps aux) | sha1sum | cut -f1 -d-)" Cheers, -- Sam.