Debian Policy "4.9. Main building script: debian/rules" requires "debian/rules must start with the line #!/usr/bin/make -f". [1] Currently, Kbuild does not follow this policy. When Kbuild generates debian/rules, "#!$(command -v $MAKE) -f" is expanded by shell. The result may not be "#!/usr/bin/make -f". There was a reason to opt out the Debian policy. If you run '/path/to/my/custom/make deb-pkg', debian/rules must also be invoked by the same Make program. If #!/usr/bin/make were hard-coded in debian/rules, the sub-make would be executed by a possibly different Make version. This is problematic due to the MAKEFLAGS incompatibility, especially the job server flag. Old Make versions used --jobserver-fds to propagate job server file descriptors, but Make >= 4.2 uses --jobserver-auth. The flag disagreement between the parent and the child Make would result in a process fork explosion. However, having a non-standard path in the shebang causes another issue; the generated source package is not portable as such a path does not exist in other build environments. This commit solves those conflicting demands. Hard-code '#!/usr/bin/make -f' in debian/rules to create a portable and Debian-compliant source package. Pass '--rules-file=$(MAKE) -f debian/rules' when dpkg-buildpackage is invoked from Makefile so that debian/rules is executed by the same Make program as used to start Kbuild. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#main-building-script-debian-rules Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/Makefile.package | 2 +- scripts/package/mkdebian | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.package b/scripts/Makefile.package index 85beab0363d7..f8a948ec2c6b 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.package +++ b/scripts/Makefile.package @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ deb-pkg srcdeb-pkg bindeb-pkg: $(if $(findstring source, $(build-type)), \ --unsigned-source --compression=$(KDEB_SOURCE_COMPRESS)) \ $(if $(findstring binary, $(build-type)), \ - -r$(KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD) -a$$(cat debian/arch), \ + --rules-file='$(MAKE) -f debian/rules' -r$(KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD) -a$$(cat debian/arch), \ --no-check-builddeps) \ $(DPKG_FLAGS)) diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian index 9105abab9728..2829f5b8aea6 100755 --- a/scripts/package/mkdebian +++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ EOF fi cat <<EOF > debian/rules -#!$(command -v $MAKE) -f +#!/usr/bin/make -f srctree ?= . KERNELRELEASE = ${KERNELRELEASE} -- 2.39.2
