On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:35:22PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:15:31AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > Marc says: > > > > Due to a problem with make -n (and recursive $(MAKE) calls), this > > check has been postponed to a later release. > > > > What is the problem with make -n? Is it fixed? Is the bug documented > > on Debian BTS? > > IIRC the problem is that you can't decide wether make failed due to a > missing target or due to a failed recursive make call (which will happen > a lot with -n, at least for all packages that use autoconf or a similar > configure system...) Why, because lintian would have to run the prerequisites of the "build" rule before make -n? Yea, I guess thats a pretty big problem, since policy doesn't require a separate "configure" target. I think in my own packages I removed that target and ./configure is called in build target.
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