Re: Bug#88029: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:20:33AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: this-and-that function of Make (so far I remember only two of those, when the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS env. variable was added and when testing for existence of build-arch was added). ... which was a fiasco. Doogie finally implemented the

Re: Bug#88029: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:18:51PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: this-and-that function of Make (so far I remember only two of those, when the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS env. variable was added and when testing for existence of build-arch was added). ... which was a fiasco. Doogie finally

Re: Bug#88029: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:20:26PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: I'd be interested to see doogie's rationale, but it's amusing enough as it stands, because the policy still says: If one or both of the targets `build-arch' and `build-indep' are not provided, then invoking

Re: Bug#88029: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-19 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-Oct-03, 04:20 (CDT), Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's a historic injustice, Help! Help! I'm being repressed! The Man is keeping me down! Up with perl, down with make! Power to the people! Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a

Re: Bug#88029: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:50:41AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: But it's a historic injustice, Help! Help! I'm being repressed! The Man is keeping me down! Up with perl, down with make! Power to the people! We share an enthusiasm for overloaded phrases, I see :) but a small verbal

Re: Bug#88029: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-19 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-Oct-03, 13:03 (CDT), Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:50:41AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: But it's a historic injustice, Help! Help! I'm being repressed! The Man is keeping me down! Up with perl, down with make! Power to the people! We

Re: Bug#88029: Package which uses jam (instead make)

2003-10-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:58:19PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: I've yet to see a technical argument for allowing debian/rules to be a non-makefile. I've yet to see a technical argument for disallowing debian/rules from being a non-makefile. See, those two statements make the same amount of