Package: lintian Version: 1.23.45 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, there's another way to ignore the exit code of a failed make. You can call make with -i to make it ignores errors: ,----[ man make ]--- | -i, --ignore-errors | Ignore all errors in commands executed to remake files. `---- Bye, Jörg. -- System Information: Debian Release: unstable/experimental APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc3 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.16.6 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.23-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.1-2 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- /usr/share/lintian/checks/rules 2007-12-04 03:54:18.000000000 +0100
+++ rules 2008-03-02 18:12:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@
if (/\$[\(\{]PWD[\)\}]/) {
tag "debian-rules-uses-pwd", "line $.";
}
- if (/^\t\s*-(?:\$[\(\{]MAKE[\}\)]|make)\s.*(?:dist)?clean/) {
+ if (/^\t\s*-(?:\$[\(\{]MAKE[\}\)]|make)\s.*(?:dist)?clean/ ||
+ /^\t\s*(?:\$[\(\{]MAKE[\}\)]|make)\s(?:.*\s)-[:alpha:]*i.*(?:dist)?clean/) {
tag "debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error", "line $.";
}
--- /usr/share/lintian/checks/rules.desc 2008-01-22 06:12:38.000000000 +0100
+++ rules.desc 2008-03-02 18:10:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@
package's clean or distclean target with a line like:
.
-$(MAKE) distclean
+ or
+ $(MAKE) -i distclean
.
- The leading "-" tells make to ignore all errors. Normally this is done
- for packages using Autoconf since Makefile may not exist. However, this
- line ignores all other error messages, not just the missing Makefile
- error. It's better to use:
+ The leading "-" or the option -i tells make to ignore all errors.
+ Normally this is done for packages using Autoconf since Makefile may not
+ exist. However, this line ignores all other error messages, not just
+ the missing Makefile error. It's better to use:
.
[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
.
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