Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > The program 'sdd' and "The Schily Makefile system" are independent projects
> > (GPL speech: "works"). As the GPL is an OSI aproved license, it must not
> > contaminate other projects like "The Schily Makefile system", so there is
> > no
> > problem with taking a recent makefilesystem and combine it with an old sdd.
>
> As you know, this is not possible in Debian.
Why? Because some strange people decided to ignore Debian rules?
You (yourself) did take the project independend make code from a different
project's tarball. Maybe, you should just educate those people inside Debian who
did not understand DFSG § 9.
> > Note that your problem would not be present if you did use "smake" to
> > compile
> > as smake includes "auto make" features that allow compilation on previously
> > unknown platforms.
>
> It seems, that we'd like to get rid of smake, hence I did intentionally
> not using it.
The problem with GNU make is that it is de-facto unmaintained.
A bug that I reported in 1999 and that has been accepted as very important bug
still has not been fixed in GNU make!
This is why I cannot rely on GNU make and need a working and highly portable
make program. This is smake.
Jörg
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