How to prepare Debian packages of software built with `bmake`

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I am porting some software to Debian/Jessie which uses bmake, the version of make usually found on BSDs, as build system. So the installation procedure is

 ./configure
 bmake all
 bmake install

Aside from the use of bmake instead of make, it is pretty canonical. Which packaging method should I use? There is several package preparation frameworks on Debian and it is hard for the casual packager to keep an eye on this.

Are there features in the Makefile which are unavailable on GNU make? If not, just use that. — tripleee, Aug 30 '14 at 12:00
BSD Make and GNU Make are essentially incompatible, so the answer to your question is *YES*. — Tim Enghel, Aug 30 '14 at 12:12

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 30 '14 at 12:02

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I suppose you could put Build-Depends: bmake and hack your debian/rules to use that instead if you feel you really have to. I don't think Debhelper would make this hard at all so we are talking maybe two lines of override in your debian/rules.

answered Aug 30 '14 at 12:02

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How to prepare Debian packages of software built with `bmake`

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