Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:04:35AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] excutable makefile, ok, this is the point of contempt. If we're actually regarding each other's views with contempt, then there's not much point in continuing the discussion, I think. Oh, come on. It's obvious from context that he meant contention, and misspoke. Not all of us on these lists are native English speakers, but that doesn't excuse deliberate misconstrual of other people's words. -- G. Branden Robinson| You live and learn. Debian GNU/Linux | Or you don't live long. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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Re: Package which uses jam (instead make)
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:04:35AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: debian/rules should be portable enough to work with any implementation of make [1]. That's the interface. If I have an implmentation that I know supports include files, I should be able to ask *my* implementation of make to include *somebody else's* debian/rules and expect it to work. You inferred that meaning yourself, it's not a universal fact. I for one don't see any reason why the Policy should mandate that feature, or any other feature not already stated in the manual (or proposed, of course). In fact, doing this would be the type of intrusive change that the conservatives among us would actually have reason to object to, unlike the change described in #88029. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
