Aargh. Yesterday I spend hours trying to find out why SERefpolicy would not build.

There was a suspicious message in the build process, about a circular dependency being removed, and it was obviously due to this dependency that the build did not work.

But: I couldn't find anything like a circular dependency. The dependencies for this file were trivial, just two input files that are not being modified or generated or anything.

Today I decided to downgrade make to the stable version (which unfortunately conflicts with current kernel-package...) - and now it compiles.

Smells like "make bug" to me...

You can grab the completely untested (last build didn't work, and my test machine is currently down) packages at http://selinux.alioth.debian.org/serefpolicy/ in case you want to try SERefpolicy yourself.

I'd love to have a SELinux policy system which does not involve any such make and m4 black magic. The makefiles are a PITA to read, the whole thing is totally unmanageable IMHO.

Have you seen Shrek 2? Remember when he has to win back his beloved?

"We're gonna need flour. Lots and lots of flour."

Unfortunately, this joke doesn't translate into other languages - "flour" and "flower" rarely sound the same... (e.g. "Mehl" and "Blumen" in German)