Re: Clarify rationale for 'debian/rules' shebang line
- To: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
- Cc: debian-policy@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Clarify rationale for 'debian/rules' shebang line
- From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:20:17 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20091115222017.GA18662@roeckx.be>
- In-reply-to: <87eiokxt6m.fsf@benfinney.id.au>
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On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:12:33PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> === modified file 'policy.sgml'
> --- policy.sgml 2009-10-21 20:49:37 +0000
> +++ policy.sgml 2009-10-31 01:10:42 +0000
> @@ -1725,7 +1725,10 @@
> <p>
> It must start with the line <tt>#!/usr/bin/make -f</tt>,
> so that it can be invoked by saying its name rather than
> - invoking <prgn>make</prgn> explicitly.
> + invoking <prgn>make</prgn> explicitly. That is, invoking
> + either of <tt>make -f debian/rules <em>args...</em></tt>
> + or <tt>./debian/rules <em>args...</em></tt> must cause
> + identical behaviour in each case.
> </p>
>
> <p>
Seconded.
Kurt
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