Re: Bootstrap failure: objdir=srcdir, FreeBSD make

[Steve McIntyre <stevem at chiark dot greenend dot org dot uk>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:43:07AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:16:22AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
>> 
>> Will Andrews has been working on taking OpenBSD and NetBSD make(1)
>> changes and folding into FreeBSD.  Maybe he knows of some more in the
>> works that would help the issue (or can look at the ones used in building
>> Debian's pmake).
>
>The Debian package of pmake is just one tarball with everything
>included; the usual .diff.gz is missing.  Therefore I do not know what
>is upstream and what is a local patch (well, I imagine the debian-
>specific control files are local :) This is not supposed to be done,
>but may be the only feasible way to handle a package which was cribbed
>from multiple CVS trees.  I've cc:ed the package maintainer, Steve
>McIntyre, for comments.

You're right - normally packages are supposed to keep upstream and
Debian patches separate. I inherited the package last May, and it's
been through several maintainers in its time as a Debian package. 

In the case of pmake, it's nigh-on impossible to work out which bits
came from where, so I guess we've forked it for now. I've tried
looking through the FreeBSD and NetBSD sites for guidance on who to
talk to about a couple of the changes we've made and some further
patches that would be nice, but I must admit I've forgotten about it
for quite a while. 

Will, I guess you're the closest thing I'm likely to find to an
upstream maintainer - shall I send you patches?

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