Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:51:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile main.c nonints.h var.c Message-ID: <20040809205012.K32590@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <200408091345.48263.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <7mllgolwsk.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <20040809.094110.04712576.imp@bsdimp.com> <200408091345.48263.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Baldwin wrote: JB>On Monday 09 August 2004 11:54 am, Harti Brandt wrote: JB>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: JB>> JB>> MWL>In message: <20040809.092824.11587387.imp@bsdimp.com> JB>> MWL>: The current man page is stunningly vague about this. It says that it JB>> MWL>: respects these environment variables, but it doesn't say they have to JB>> MWL>: be set in the enviornment to the exclusion of setting them on the JB>> MWL>: command line. JB>> MWL> JB>> MWL>So either we can make it work, or document that the variables listed JB>> MWL>in the environment section must be set as environment variables only. JB>> JB>> There is nothing to be made work. Both variables are intended to be used JB>> as environment variables. That they happend to work from the command line JB>> was a side effect of make putting its variables into the environment. JB>> Does the following clarify things enough? JB> JB>Doesn't change the fact that it can break existing scripts. I typically do JB> JB>% worldloop -j 64 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test JB> JB>on my test boxes (worldloop is a script that does a 'make buildworld "$@"' in JB>a loop). Can't be fixed I guess. Wouldn't MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test worldloop -j 64 do the trick? harti
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