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Date:      Sun, 16 Jun 2002 14:29:28 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexey Zelkin <phantom@ark.cris.net>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/calendar Makefile
Message-ID:  <20020616141345.P2113-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020615231946.GA65995@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Friday, 14 June 2002 at 12:16:29 +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:22:00PM -0700, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>   Log:
> >>   beforeinstall target:
> >>
> >>   - Remove superfluous ;
> >>   - create destination directories if they don't exist.
> >
> > This is incorrect. It's a task of mtree(8) to create directory
> > hierarchy, and IIRC it was discussed number of times before.
>
> Possibly I'm missing some vital information here, but how does mtree
> get invoked from the individual Makefile  ?

Not.

> do:
>
>   cd /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar
>   make all install

No, it shouldn't be possible to do that.  Various things must be
bootstrapped first, starting with make itself.  Leaf makefiles shouldn't
complicated or obfuscated to support full or half-baked bootstraps.

Bruce


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