From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 16 06:27:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA23590 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 06:27:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA23578 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 06:27:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA27276; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:05:15 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199711161405.OAA27276@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Evan Champion cc: spork , Edwin Culp , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way to _not_ build something in make world? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 02:48:54 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:05:15 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, spork wrote: > > > Copy "Makefile" to "makefile" and cvsup won't touch it, and make reads the > > lower-case one first... > > Well, I have cvsup running in delete mode, so unless I specifically told > it to leave the file alone, it's just going to nuke the makefile. I guess > there isn't really a good way of doing this that doesn't smell of hack in > one way or another. ??? Am I missing something here ? Cvsup doesn't touch /usr/src, just ~cvs or whereever. It's the `cvs co ...' that updates your /usr/src files, and, certainly on my machine, it won't nuke any of my local changes :-| I just search through the ``cvs co'' output for "^M " when I want to see what I've changed locally, and "^\? " when I want to see what I've added. > Evan > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....