Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:05:15 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> Cc: spork <spork@super-g.com>, Edwin Culp <eculp@mexcom.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way to _not_ build something in make world? Message-ID: <199711161405.OAA27276@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 02:48:54 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.971116022600.25788A-100000@cello.synapse.net>
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> 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 <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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