From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 11:04:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8D816A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cyberonic.com (mail.cyberonic.com [4.17.179.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CD243FB1 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (node-40244c0a.sfo.onnet.us.uu.net [64.36.76.10]) by mail.cyberonic.com (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h8HI9ubi032538; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:09:57 -0400 Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.9/8.11.6) id h8HI4L3D067235; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:04:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:04:21 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <20030917180421.GH39788@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Marcel Moolenaar , arch@freebsd.org References: <20030917065127.GB4261@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030917073900.GG39788@funkthat.com> <20030917080127.GB16024@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030917080127.GB16024@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make(1): adding sort modifiers X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:04:28 -0000 Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:01 -0700: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:39:00AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 23:51 -0700: > > > sorted subdirectory recursion, even though it's impossible or > > > hard to do it in the makesfiles themselves. Is this too evil? > > > > I always thought that sorted SUBDIR lines in the Makefile was for > > aiding the developer in seeing what is available, and where to put > > the new module. > > Yes. What's your point? The comment of impossible or hard made me think you were advocating dropping the requirement of sorted SUBDIR's since make now does that. But assuming from your response, that was not the case. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."