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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:27:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: make world
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970407192540.15555C-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199704072212.QAA11718@rocky.mt.sri.com>

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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> > > > You know, there are several things installed by a make world that I
> > > > *really* wish I could condition out via a make veriable:
> > > 
> > > Then copy gnu/usr.bin/Makefile to gnu/usr.bin/makefile, and comment
> > > them out. :)
> > > 
> > > There is such a thing as being 'too flexible', because it introduces
> > > too much complexity for those that don't understand the system.
> > 
> > Well, that takes care of one of three, but that gets undone next time I do
> > a cvs update.
> 
> Uhh, nope.  CVS won't touch files that have never been in the system,
> like 'makefile'.  I tdo this all the time on my laptop which doesn't
> have space for the big packages, so I delete them and build a
> 'makefile' with them gone.  CVS update creates the directories anew,
> but my CVS update script deletes them again as soon as the update
> completes.
> 
> The only time this fails is when new directories are in place, but
> any 'customized' system needs some modifications to stay current.

Ah, I see, if there's a "makefile", then "Makefile" isn't even read.  I
didn't understand what you were aiming at.  Great, this'll do just what I
want!  Thanks, Nate.

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