Russ Allbery wrote: > I really think this is a bug in make. Probably, but who knows. It could just be a misfeature on which ghod knows what somehow depends. .PHONY: precompiled-binary-we-cannot-regenerate-with-gcc.o > We can change Policy if we have to. Arguably that line complies with > Policy, but it feels icky to me; Policy's requirement that debian/rules be > a makefile to me means that you should be able to use it as a makefile, > which means not requiring special make flags. I don't remember all the examples of ways to use debian/rules as a makefile that tend to come up whenever someone suggests that that (IMHO restrictive and counter-innovative) requirement be dropped. (And would prefer recapitulating that thread..) But I had rather thought that they all tended to involve either: - Testing if a target exists. Ie, something like `make -nf debian/rules get-orig-source` (close to equivilant: `debian/rules -n get-orig-source`) - Being able to rely on various make features when running debian/rules. Ie: `debian/rules clean build FOO=1` Both sorts of things continue to work with rules files that pass additional options to make. I'm having a hard time imagining a rationalle for building a package by running `make -f debian/rules binary` -- see shy jo
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