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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:19:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Make World Times and a question about shared libs / make all
Message-ID:  <199503231719.JAA01094@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950323120227.11921A-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Mar 23, 95 12:03:51 pm

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> On Thu, 23 Mar 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > Would people think it gross if /usr/include was nothing but
> > > a directory tree full of symbolic links into /usr/src (or
> > > where ever you did the ``make INCLUDE_TYPES=symlink includes'' from).
> > 
> > No, that would actually be more (he ducks) ORTHOGONAL! :-)
> > 
> > Seriously.  Then you at least have a tree of links or a tree of copies
> > but never a mix (you may recall me raving on this particular topic
> > awhile back) and it's at least a whole lot easier to _understand_.
> > 
> > Yes!  Please!
> > 
> > 						Jordan
> > 
> 
> How would that work for folks who don't want to keep an entire source tree
> available?  I have the room, myself, but lots of friends running FreeBSD 
> are doing it in 200-300 meg partitions.  Would this hurt them?

Folks without the entire source tree on line should probably not be
attempting to run ``make includes''.  It would fail now if any of
the directories need by this are missing.  [I am working on
the later for the SHARED=copies case].

If they want to run with limit src tree they well need to be careful
about CLOBBER and /usr/include.  With the new .mk and Makefile mods
in place the correct command for a partial src tree would become:
cd /usr/src;
make INCLUDE_TYPES=copies includes

Note that INCLUDE_TYPES is my new name for ``SHARED'', since this is
become overloaded.  The default INCLUDE_TYPES will be copies, so
in the above command you could leave this out.

My new includes: target is a lot smarter than the current one, it
uses a list of places to cd into and run ``make install_includes''.
For each directory in this list we first check to see if that
place exists in the src tree, if it does not a little skip message
is printed and things continue on there way.  I could add some
better error checking for the CLOBBER case and make this an error
condition instead of just a warning.

Right now I use a compatibility hack in the .mk files that calls
beforeinstall: for install_includes: so that I don't have to
modify a pile of Makefiles at this time.

If 2.1 is pushed out past the end of April I should have time to
finish this work off and intergrate a massive .mk overhall, if
not it can wait for 2.2.
-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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