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Subject: Re: make world
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970407165836.15555A-100000@protocol.eng.umd.edu> from Chuck Robey at "Apr 7, 97 05:06:56 pm"
To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:40:25 +0930 (CST)
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Chuck Robey stands accused of saying:
> You know, there are several things installed by a make world that I
> *really* wish I could condition out via a make veriable:
...
> Would it be possible to add a variable to the make files so that some of
> this stuff would be ignored on build and install?  Well, I know it's
> logically possible, I mean politically possible or desireable?

I put forward a scheme using some slight mods to bsd.subdir.mk and 
subdirectory Makefiles, but I was ignored.  Perhaps I should have
taken that as a "yes, go ahead"?  

This was tied in with the perl5 discussions. Hey Perl people, I
thought the "stable" perl5 was due out RSN.  What happened?  Atari
take over Perl development?

> Chuck Robey                 | Interests include any kind of voice or data 

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