On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Better would be that
the Makefile inherits from values passed in via Make or the env.
Sure.
%configure || :
[...]
To repeat from the earlier reply, one may want to take precautions,
so when a future upgrade adds a configure script, one drops the '|| :'.
IMHO adding precaution cruft like "[ -f configure ] && exit -1 [...]"
is a sign of the packager doing package updates too carelessly if
(s)he doesn't even trust oneself or others to check if the upstream
build system has changed between releases...