Re: debian/rules "make -f" restriction
On Wed, Oct 28 2009, Tobi wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>> This is what the make directive 'include' is all
>> about. Conditionally, include fileA or fileB. Each file is all
>> uncontaminated now.
>>
>> This is not a technical shortcoming of using Makefiles.
>
> You're right. What we do might be possible from "within" the Makefile
> itself. Maybe even a custom cdbs rule might be possible. But it's not that
> easy and it would make the debian/rules less readable.
I beg to differ. It is really trivial, and it does not make the
rules file less readable
#!/usr/bin/make -f
ifeq (,$(srip $(ENV_VAR_WE_LOOK_FOR)))
include regular.mk
else
include special.mk
endif
Done.
> The solution we have right now is in some way "elegant", because you have
> only to deal with a standard debian/rules and besides the different
> shebang line there's nothing else to care about.
Actually, there is. My states makefile can no longer
include debian/rules, because, you see, it is not a makefile. There are
other ways that it does not look like a makefile, walk like a makefile,
or quack like one.
> But putting the technical aspect completeley aside - with our "hack",
> the debian/rules still bahaves as it should be. You can run
> "debian/rules" and you can run "make -f debian/rules". It's still a
> "self executing" Makefile.
That is just one aspect.
> IMHO the policy is a little bit over-specific, when stating "It must start
> with the line #!/usr/bin/make -f".
It is also a policy that everyone else seems to follow.
> It seems nobody else has ever thought about changing the shebang line
> of debian/rules, so most likely the policy will not get changed just
> because I stumbled upon this issue.
We have thought of it, and rejected it as needless inconsistency.
> So what about just adding a Linitan override and leave everything else
> as it is? Our debian/rules still follows the "spirit" of the Debian
> policy, even if it does not start with "#!/usr/bin/make -f".
I do not think it follows the policy, no.
manoj
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