On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > > I think the dpkg as standalone program should be portable to system 
> > > without
> > > GNU utils (like mv, xargs). Of course GNU make is required, but it could 
> > > be
> > > easly resolved by /usr/bin/dpkg-make symlink.
> >  
> > It will always require GNU utils such as autoconf, gettext, make, etc.
> > I also don't see what you would gain with a dpkg-make symlink.
> 
> The path for GNU make is hardcoded in debian/rules file as /usr/bin/make.

Doesn't stop you typing

/usr/bin/gmake -f debian/rules binary 

does it?

jules

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