Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:27:46 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does building current on 2.2.x still work? Message-ID: <199807230727.RAA02053@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199807230719.BAA08221@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jul 23, 98 01:19:57 am"
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Warner Losh wrote:
> What would be needed that isn't covered in ${MAKE} and ${.MAKEFLAGS}?
> The value of BAZ in make foo BAZ=blah gets passed down to sub-makes,
> and .MAKEFLAGS takes care of the rest. What would be missing?
I don't know of anything that would be missing, but I'm not sure how to
test this to avoid making the cure worse than the disease.
>
> *:
> cd ${.CURDIR}; ${MAKE} -m ${.CURDIR}/share/mk -f Makefile.inc0 ${.TARGET}
>
> (well, where * gets expanded by humans to all the desirable targets in
> the current src/Makefile).
I guess "desirable targets" could be interpreted as "all targets we want to
make visible" to Joe Novice.
I don't know if this design would gain popular support.
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