Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:01:13 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: imp@village.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does building current on 2.2.x still work? Message-ID: <199807231301.XAA12166@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I have a silly question. Looking at src/Makefile, I see:
>
>.if (!make(world)) && (!make(buildworld)) && (!make(installworld))
>.MAKEFLAGS:= -m ${.CURDIR}/share/mk ${.MAKEFLAGS}
>.endif
>
>Why the if? Why wouldn't you want to use share/mk always for make
>*world?
Because some versions of make (in particular the one in 2.1) don't
support -m. The makefile takes great care not to use it until make
is bootstrapped.
Bruce
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