Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 03:04:56 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-user@FreeBSD.ORG, rgrimes@FreeBSD.ORG, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile Message-ID: <199709151704.DAA24567@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> That doesn't follow. There are lots of poorly named internal targets. >> Try `make bootstrap'. It will make a mess unless invoked with a >> temporary DESTDIR. > >Umm, make bootstrap was never meant to be an internal target, I think >I originally added that and it was supposed to be a one-off upgrade >target to bootstrap yourself from the previous release to current. The comment before it says otherwise. The makefile now does almost everything necessary to bootstrap from previous versions (there are some problems with hard-coded paths in previous versions). This involves approximately `wc -l /usr/src/Makefile` lines more than are in the bootstrap target :-). Bruce
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