From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 18:44:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D0216A4CF for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:44:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44FEE43D5A for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:44:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 22972 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2004 18:44:58 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Aug 2004 18:44:57 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.208 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i79IiDtO076097; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:44:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Harti Brandt Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:45:48 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <7mllgolwsk.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <20040809.094110.04712576.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040809174540.U32590@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <20040809174540.U32590@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408091345.48263.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: johan@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile main.c nonints.h var.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:44:58 -0000 On Monday 09 August 2004 11:54 am, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > MWL>In message: <20040809.092824.11587387.imp@bsdimp.com> > MWL>: The current man page is stunningly vague about this. It says that it > MWL>: respects these environment variables, but it doesn't say they have to > MWL>: be set in the enviornment to the exclusion of setting them on the > MWL>: command line. > MWL> > MWL>So either we can make it work, or document that the variables listed > MWL>in the environment section must be set as environment variables only. > > There is nothing to be made work. Both variables are intended to be used > as environment variables. That they happend to work from the command line > was a side effect of make putting its variables into the environment. > Does the following clarify things enough? Doesn't change the fact that it can break existing scripts. I typically do % worldloop -j 64 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test on my test boxes (worldloop is a script that does a 'make buildworld "$@"' in a loop). Can't be fixed I guess. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org