Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 23:11:53 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bsd.doc.mk and ${PRINTER}
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951026225044.228G-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199510261707.TAA04113@shadows.cs.hut.fi>
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On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
> > Comments? Will it be a huge headache to change this?
>
> Shouldn't be.
>
> Compared to the trouble it causes it is a piece of cake, no matter how long
> it takes :-)
In -stable, there are 8 Makefiles that reference PRINTER.
The reason that make world now fails if you have PRINTER set and it didn't
before is that the Makefile at the root of the doc tree used to call make
with an explict value of PRINTER to build that tree (twice actually). Now
it does not.
For 2.1, we could fix this by:
a) Doing the right thing and changing PRINTER to something else
in all affected makefiles.
b) Install a hack whereby the top level doc makefile calls make
and defines PRINTER.
Then there is the question of how many people will be doing make world's
on the 2.1 source tree? (read: how urgent is it that it be fixed in 2.1?)
-john
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