From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 23 00:26:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27435 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27286 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA02053; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:27:46 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199807230727.RAA02053@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Does building current on 2.2.x still work? In-Reply-To: <199807230719.BAA08221@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jul 23, 98 01:19:57 am" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:27:46 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message