Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 21:05:48 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Message-ID: <199606191905.VAA02531@grumble.grondar.za>
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Nate Williams wrote:
> > I say, why not _not_ bmake tcl, let it "all hang out" in its original
> > format, except untarred and with patches applied, and let its own
> > build do the work (modulo some makefile diffs (destdir etc)). diffs
> > can easily be generated with 'cvs diff'. Further versions {c|sh}ould
> > be imported on vendor branches.
>
> Because all of the 'Berkeley' targets don't work.
>
> 'make depend all install clean cleandir obj' etc.. are *useful* (nay
> critical) for some installations.
But... This is half my point. If this lot was in a directory (say
contrib or whatever) then these 'Berkeley' targets don't have to
work in each subdir. The contrib/Makefile {c|sh}ould be taught how
to do the right thing.
M
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