Bug#311786: blocked? "missing debian/rules targets to cause lintian error"
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:15:31AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Marc says:
>
> Due to a problem with make -n (and recursive $(MAKE) calls), this
> check has been postponed to a later release.
>
> What is the problem with make -n? Is it fixed? Is the bug documented
> on Debian BTS?
IIRC the problem is that you can't decide wether make failed due to a
missing target or due to a failed recursive make call (which will happen
a lot with -n, at least for all packages that use autoconf or a similar
configure system...)
This is not really a bug in make, more a missing feature.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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