[debhelper-devel] Bug#734592: Bug#734592: makefile.pm: make output parsing a bit less strict

[Joey Hess]

Andrew Shadura wrote:
> I propose a patch to relax requirements to the make output. Currently,
> when the target doesn't exist, makefile.pm expects string like:
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target 'clean'.  Stop.
> 
> However, if the Makefile includes autogenerated parts (as it is the case
> with Jonathan Schleifer's buildsys.mk), make responds differently:
> 
> Makefile:4: buildsys.mk: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target 'buildsys.mk'.  Stop.

Please see bug #718121.

The best way to fix this would be to fix make to have a way to enumerate
available targets. Any change to debhelper risks breaking some set of
packages. I am very reluctant to do that.

-- 
see shy jo
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