On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 11:40:13AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Wichert> Does anyone know why debian/rules is obliged to be a > Wichert> makefile? I can't find any good reason, except tradition and > Wichert> ease of maintenance. > > Consistency, maybe. It is not as if there is any loss of > power, one can make make scripts do anything that a shell script can, > and then some, and one may even write a shell script that is invoked > by Make. I did this very thing with the Great X Reorganization. debian/rules at one point calls a shell script called "setperms" which handles gobs and gobs of chmod'ing for the four dozen or so binary packages. Why didn't I do this in the Makefile itself? One, it's long enough already; and two, that thing intimidates me. Of course, there's a heck of a lot more to the XFree86 debian/rules than calling that piddly little script. -- G. Branden Robinson | The errors of great men are venerable Debian GNU/Linux | because they are more fruitful than the branden@ecn.purdue.edu | truths of little men. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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