From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 20:54:52 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 4EA3E16A4CF; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:54:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318A043D5C; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:54:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) iB2Ks8WR081646; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:54:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iB2Ks8O6081645; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:54:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:54:07 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-ID: <20041202205407.GD78684@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20041128202656.GL750@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20041129060320.GA26868@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20041129185546.GA74655@freebsdmall.com> <20041202204413.GN753@zaphod.nitro.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041202204413.GN753@zaphod.nitro.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE cc: Nik Clayton cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: Murray Stokely 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 20:54:52 -0000 --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:44:13PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > 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 i= ts > > > > 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 su= re > > > 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. >=20 > 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. > I can confirm that, since I'm guilty of this OBJDIR issue. It's not possible to "easily" fix it without changing a lot of things, so it's better to start a rewrite from zero. Marc --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBr4Ds81T1MWxkgcoRArh4AJ9CnH3h29A7lo2AxiBtNyCavJCOvQCdE/9U aGwAXx8Wr69kKqYrv0FC6Gc= =Qufa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ--