On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:04:32AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:57:50AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Or we could go back to how the packaging manual says it:
> > This file is usually an executable makefile, and contains packages
> > specific recipes for compiling the package and building binary
> > package(s) out of the source.
> s/packages\nspecific/package-specific/
Right. (The "usually" was added, btw)
> Yes but
> It must start with the line #!/usr/bin/make -f, so that it can be invoked
> by saying its name rather than invoking make explicitly.
> is quite make-specific, and it includes a "must". This would have to be
> reworded.
``This file must be able to be invoked by saying its name rather than
invoking make explicitly. This can be done (for makefiles) by having
the first line be #!/usr/bin/make -f.''
> What does the old packaging manual say here, is it different?
Nope.
Cheers,
aj
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