On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > I dont see why make should be required by our build process. > > Why is the debian/rules file a makefile, couldnt it easily be done with > shell scripts instead.... make enables the file to have dependecies and a > more structured format, but do we really need these features ? > > It would be easy to change our build system to use shell scripts by have a > default shell script that calls the existing debian/rules operation. > > gnu make itself can be compiled without have make preinstalled, however > the debian packages does need make to process the rules file, i imagine > there may be some architecture independent packages which dont need make.
dpkg doesn't care. It's Debian Policy that says this.
