Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:44:13 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon Message-ID: <20041202204413.GN753@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20041129185546.GA74655@freebsdmall.com> References: <20041128202656.GL750@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20041129060320.GA26868@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20041129185546.GA74655@freebsdmall.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2004.11.29 10:55:46 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:03:20AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > - Redoing the build system (make files), because it clearly shows its > > > age and several things are broken, e.g. OBJDIR. > > > > Makes sense. I'd be happier seeing a comprehensive list of the things > > that are broken though, so we can measure the replacement and make sure > > it solves the problems. > > Yes, a few of the recent additions (like mirrors.xml) broke parts of > the build, and it might be better to just fix those broken commits of > the past few years rather than starting from scratch. OBJDIR was broken way before mirrors.xml. Also, I'm not really talking about starting on a clean slate. Of course parts of the the current buildsystem is just fine, but others are just a mess. Also, a thing that really bugs me with the current doc buildsystem is it's misuse of variables that has a specific meaning in src/ (like DESTDIR). I really like to remove that mess. > I think the general bsdmake infrastructure of the doc project is a > strong advantage of this doc project over others. I'm aware of few > others that allow one to build html/postscript/pdf/text versions of > the complete doc set as easily as we can. Indeed, and it has never been my intention to remove that, or remove any fundamental functionality. -- Simon L. Nielsen [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBr36ch9pcDSc1mlERAoU3AKDB+7Ep6lJ6DuZIZuxWINalVDLZAQCgg5PE Rk5Pm96OHclgs3PVFZdKWwo= =P9JB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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