Manoj Srivastava wrote: > If I ahve the magic variables set, and call it as > % make -f ./debian/rules, > I get the standard behaviour. If I turn around and call it as > % ./debian/rules, > I get totally different behaviour.
True but if you DON'T set the magic variable, you get the exact same behaviour, whether you call "make -f ./debian/rules" or "./debian/rules". And IMHO that's all that should be strictly required. I don't expect anyone to accidently set a variable "SPECIAL_VDR_SUFFIX". And whoever sets this variable does this for a reason and will surly not call "make -f ./debian/rules". Besides this, it's well documented. > This is confusing. This is slick, and obfuscatory. By itself it > would qualify as a bug in my eyes. Talking about obfuscated debian/rules... there's much, much worse out there! I consider this, to be a friendly debian/rules: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-vdr-dvb/vdr/vdr-plugin-epgsearch/trunk/debian/rules ...if you know cdbs and you might need to look up /usr/share/vdr-dev/dependencies.sh. But the shebang simply is nothing to worry about. Tobias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
