From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 7 16:27:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23785 for current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (root@po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23772 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from protocol.eng.umd.edu (protocol.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.180]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA19772; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:27:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by protocol.eng.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.6.4) with SMTP id TAA16009; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:27:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: protocol.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:27:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@protocol.eng.umd.edu To: Nate Williams cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: make world In-Reply-To: <199704072212.QAA11718@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------