Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:32:07 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile README Message-ID: <20060608233110.R93122@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060607194300.7565e832.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <200606070333.k573XmRc067920@repoman.freebsd.org> <200606071051.47070.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060607194300.7565e832.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Tom Rhodes wrote: TR> > I thought the obfuscation was intentional as very few people should be doing TR> > a 'make world' without a custom DESTDIR these days. Certainly people new to TR> > FreeBSD shouldn't be doing it; only those with the command hardwired into TR> > their brains. We've had buildworld/installworld since 2.2.5 (or 2.2.6) I TR> > think as I've only had to do a 'make world' once to go from 2.2.2 to TR> > 2.2.6. :) TR> TR> Heh, I agree, "make world" isn't really needed. But it was TR> either a quick comment about it and link to the handbook where TR> we advocate "buildworld" or remove the world target. Of course, TR> we could just do nothing and let users continue to submit PRs TR> about it bombing with a complaint of an undocumented make(1) TR> option. TR> TR> Personally, I was debating on just removing most of the TR> world target with just a message: TR> TR> "The world target has been replaced with the buildworld target." TR> TR> But stepped back due to bikeshed potential. ;) Hmm, maybe just bomb out on make'ing world without DESTDIR defined? Original behaviour would be emulated with simply DESTDIR=/ then... Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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