Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:02:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/etc/isdn Makefile src/etc/m Message-ID: <XFMail.20020719090222.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020719210904.Q12629-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On 19-Jul-2002 Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>> Log:
>> s/${INSTALL} -c/${INSTALL} ${COPY}/
>
> Strongly unapproved by: bde.
>
> This change is to help work around the foot-shooting of making -d
> incompatible with -C and -p in install(1)'s flags. It abuses the old
> poorly named COPY variable which had become a no-op. Now COPY is still
> poorly named but has different semantics. All this is like breaking
> cc to reject combinations of flags that don't really go together (e.g.,
> -I doesn't go with linking) instead of just ignoring the flags that
> don't apply to the current operation, and then working around this
> foot-shooting by splitting up CFLAGS and changing many Makefiles to
> only use the part of CFLAGS that is relevant.
Agreed, I still don't see why '-d' doesn't just cause '-C' to be
ignored. It seems that most people prefer that behavior as well
from my recollection of the various threads.
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