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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:01:13 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: imp@village.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au
Subject: Re: Does building current on 2.2.x still work?
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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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