From owner-cvs-all Fri Jul 19 6: 3: 0 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F82537B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E909243E5E for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9822 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2002 13:02:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Jul 2002 13:02:48 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6JD2C065323; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:02:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020719210904.Q12629-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:02:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/etc/isdn Makefile src/etc/m Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message