Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:37:15 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More bogons in Makefiles... Message-ID: <19894.870331035@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:52:35 %2B0200." <19970730225235.58179@shale.csir.co.za>
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> 1. What is the "general" policy with Makefile's pointing to directories like
> ${.OBJDIR}../../foo/bar when the library (normally) in question is
> installed in /usr/lib? In a number of places there are references like
Ah, but maybe it's not yet, eh? Or maybe it's entirely the wrong
version because you're building a source tree for a different release
of FreeBSD than the build host is running.
Assuming anything about the contents of the final destination
directories for what may be a simple build is highly bogus and, while
this is still done in a number of places in /usr/src, the eventual
intent is to get rid of this and make /usr/src build in a properly
self-referential fashion.
> src tree. I percieve the purpose of 'make world' to be to make sure that
> these libraries get installed before the build happens. Or are these
It's the current kludge of `make world' to do this, but it's still not
its most ideal purpose. :)
> Is there a clean way of building and installing the lib in
> ${.OBJDIR}/.. as a first step in the Makefile, and cleaning it from the
> other subdirectory's Makefile if only that subdirectory was built?
Not really, no. Not a clean way. :-)
> [ numerous bogons identified and diff'd ]
Yes, as you can see, things aren't always 100% consistent in there and
you've certainly identified some definite bogons. I or someone will
review and commit from this list fairly shortly.
> Anyway, that's all for now. I'm still trying to understand make, *.mk and
> the Makefiles.
You seem to be doing pretty well so far. :-)
Jordan
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