Just playing around with make, and want to suggest this tiny
modification to the proposal: in place of:
+ If one or both of the targets <tt>build-arch</tt>
+ and <tt>build-indep</tt> are not provided, then
+ invoking <tt>debian/rules</tt> with one of the
+ not-provided targets as arguments should produce a
+ exit status code of 2. Usually this is provided
+ automatically by make if the target is missing.
(and notwithstanding that we're going to require both or neither), it
should say that "debian/rules -q with one of the not-provided targets
...", because the programs which will want to test this are likely to
do something cheap like:
debian/rules -q build-arch
if [ $? -eq 2 ]; then
debian/rules build
else
debian/rules build-arch
fi
To try a full build only to receive an exit status of 2 would not say
whether the build failed or the target was not found.
Julian
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