2012/10/8 Mattias Gaertner <[email protected]>: > The Makefile is critical and therefore maintained by the Laz devels. > The debian files are maintained and understood only by the debian package > maintainers.
Thats why I said: remove it from lazarus sources entirely. And encourage debian maintainers to give *feedback*, file bugs if they find that original make install does something incredibly stupid (for example not respecting $(DESTDIR) or doing a recursive cp -r . $(SOMEWHERE) that will fail if the $(SOMEWHERE) is a sub directory and similar things). Unfortunately debian maintainers have the habit of giving no feedback at all, not even asking how things are supposed to work and rather spend lot of time to write hundreds of lines of completely redundant *duplicate* makefile *from scratch* instead of just asking the original makefile authors to make it accept just one more variable. Ideally the debian/rules file should just call the original make install which will then do a proper install suitable for most systems out of the box and then do only some minor adjustments to satisfy debian policy. They should not be forced or even encouraged to rewrite almost the entire makefile from scratch. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
