On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:54:03AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:26:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I believe the attached patch has the following characteristics: > > - Behavior on systems where 'make' is not GNU make is undefined. > > Specifically, on such a system dpkg is likely to either conclude that > > /all/ packages support 'build-arch', or that /none/ of them support > > 'build-arch', depending on whether and how 'make -qn' fails.
> Too bad, both Solaris and BSD make fail the bad way, returning 1 on a bad > target -- and neither has -v or --version. I haven't checked the rest, but > it's likely they behave the same way. > So, an idea: what about checking "make -f /dev/null blah 2>/dev/null" first, > for some portability? What 'blah' are you planning to use that's guaranteed to not have broken side-effects in some cases on Debian packages? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
