From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sat May 12  4:15:33 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from hall.mail.mindspring.net (hall.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.60])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2AE37B423
	for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sat, 12 May 2001 04:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com)
Received: from mindspring.com (pool0001.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.192.1])
	by hall.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA02867;
	Sat, 12 May 2001 07:15:26 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <3AFD1B64.EC2AE5D6@mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 04:15:48 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony}  (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Question about building source
References: <3AF82432.F150DB51@mindspring.com> <20010509025423Q.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3AF95FFB.40DCF441@mindspring.com> <20010510010142X.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3AFAB3A9.798899F@mindspring.com> <20010510093110.A3480@dragon.nuxi.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

"David Mr. Hackers O'Brien" wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:28:41AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > If it doesn't work as you have said, "make release' also _doesn't_
> > > work; we cannot make a distribution. Obviously, it's wrong:)
> >
> > I think you are missing the facts:
> ...
> > o     Look in /usr/share/bsd.prog.mk for ".if defined(DESTDIR)";
> >       it overrides my compiler defaults for the values of CFLAGS
> >       and CXXINCLUDES.  This makes them _WRONG_:
> ...
> > The BSD .mk files insist on using the wrong .mk files; I don't
> > know how much clearer I can make it?!?
> 
> I went thru this last month -- bsd.*.mk assumes /usr/src and
> the base compilers.  Peroid.  People didn't want to accept
> that, but you are giving more proof of it.  If you want to
> change the assumptions of about the base system, you have to
> be willing to change bsd.*.mk.  Peroid.

It's trivial to fix.  I've posted the patches twice, now;
I've had the problem since 3.x, when I was working at
Whistle, and first had the problem, after fixing threaded
exception handling in g++ with Jeremy Allison.

-- Terry

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message