On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:31:57AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > I can't think of a really good reason for insisting, besides the issue
> > of readability.
>
> Indeed, and even that's debatable.
And not particularly precisely defined ;-)
> I can't seem to think of proper wording to allow non-makefile... perhaps
> this:
>
> This file must be an architecture-independent non-interactive executable
> which has to take the following parameters on the command line and act
> accordingly:
>
> [list of required targets]
BTW, see the accepted proposal 72335 about build-arch/build-indep.
This means that "debian/rules [-q] build-(arch|indep)" will have to
bomb out with exit status 2 if the target does not exist. So that
will have to go into policy as a requirement:
If the requested target does not exist, you must exit with exit
status 2. If you are called with a -q flag, you must not attempt to
perform any actions, and must return with exit status 2 if and only
if the requested target does not exist.
This is getting messy, but still doable.
Julian
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