[Build-common-hackers] rewrite plans
Tom Huckstep
tom-lists-cdbs@jaguarpaw.co.uk
Sun, 23 May 2004 11:06:42 +0100
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:45:25AM +0100, Tom Huckstep wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:16:38PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > I had started implementing this in gmake; however, as jbailey pointed
> > out, there's no reason why this can't be done in shell. I'm even
> > inclined to do it in perl
>
> I'm surprised to discover that debian/rules files are allowed to be anything
> other than Makefiles. I had always assumed it was some policy matter.
I've just checked policy, and debian/rules files do have to be Makefiles.
In that case could you explain what you mean by implementing this in shell
or perl?
Do you mean you will have a simple call in debian/rules out to your
implementation?
Tom