From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 28 16:54:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04350 for current-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:54:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03686 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22206; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:51:35 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd022180; Wed Jan 28 17:51:28 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA25513; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:50:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801290050.RAA25513@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:50:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rcarter@consys.com, nate@mt.sri.com, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199801281840.LAA05323@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Jan 28, 98 11:40:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > familiar to pure software engineers. As far as a product goes, > > an operating system is peanuts compared to something like > > a ship, say. Or even a car, these days. Somehow, those get > > built. > > W/out any user intevention? Amazing how it requires users to build > them, isn't it? Yes, it *could* all be automated, but the 'resources' > required to do it is greater than requiring humans doing the work. Now, > in a weird twist of fate, that is exactly the same thing I said. Actually, the factory where NeXT machines were built was sufficiently automated that it could produce 30,000 units a month, and required only two people to run it. It is currently still used to make laser printers. > ps. Yes, given enough time and resources, anything can be automated. > But, the end result may be more expensive than is worthwhile. Now, I > wouldn't have any ideas on that given that I work for one of the three > largest R&D companies in the world, who come up with all sort of > wonderful (and often times quite expensive) solutions to existing and > some non-existant problems. :) The easiet fix would be to have .depend depn on Makefile, wouldn't it? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.