Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:53:47PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > Hmm, the dependency on make is flawed, as it is perfectly possible to
> > write debian/rules that is a perl script, for example.
>
> If you find a flaw in my application of the criteria, bug reports against
> build-essential are welcome :-)
>
> BTW, note that Packaging Manual section 3.2.1 requires that debian/rules
> is a makefile.
Which is rather unwarranted... all that should be necessary is a executable
file that can act differently based on the first command-line argument
passed to it. Whether it is makefile, a shell or a Perl script, or even a
compiled program (yuck :), it shouldn't matter.
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