From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 20:44:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677F216A4CE; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:44:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zaphod.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170F043D3F; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:44:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: by zaphod.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id 5DC5D11A5F; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:44:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:44:13 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Murray Stokely Message-ID: <20041202204413.GN753@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20041128202656.GL750@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20041129060320.GA26868@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20041129185546.GA74655@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041129185546.GA74655@freebsdmall.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:44:14 -0000 --EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBr36ch9pcDSc1mlERAoU3AKDB+7Ep6lJ6DuZIZuxWINalVDLZAQCgg5PE Rk5Pm96OHclgs3PVFZdKWwo= =P9JB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EE8jvUPYYQjJtG7J--