I dont see why make should be required by our build process. Why is the debian/rules file a makefile, couldnt it easily be done with shell scripts instead.... make enables the file to have dependecies and a more structured format, but do we really need these features ? It would be easy to change our build system to use shell scripts by have a default shell script that calls the existing debian/rules operation. gnu make itself can be compiled without have make preinstalled, however the debian packages does need make to process the rules file, i imagine there may be some architecture independent packages which dont need make. It would be more flexible IMHO Glenn
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