Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:50:17 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More bogons in Makefiles... Message-ID: <19970801005017.53925@shale.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199707311018.UAA26613@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Thu, Jul 31, 1997 at 08:18:54PM %2B1000 References: <199707311018.UAA26613@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 1997 at 08:18:54PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Paths relative to the source tree are preferred, although this causes
> problems with partial source trees. Paths relative to the object tree
> are used by many sloppy Makefiles
Ok, I'll look out for these while I'm bumbling around.
> with a per-source directory obj symlink)). Non sloppy makefiles would
> use a more complicated search for the object directory that would
> actually be used if `make' were run in the external source directory.
An example being? ;)
> The path here should be ${.CURDIR/../../secure}.
I'll watch out for this too then...
> There are more bogons here. The whole ifdef is a verbose and confusing
> way write `YEARISTYPE= ${.OBJDIR}/yearistype. yearistype is always
> created in the object directory and ${.OBJDIR} always exists (although
> it's not clear where it is when make is invoked with args `obj all ...').
>From this I read ${.OBJDIR} == ${.CURDIR} iff no 'make obj'. If that is
correct then there is a lot of funny business going on, because there are a
lot of checks this form.
> Because I don't use it :-). bsd.libnames.mk is no longer used in -current,
> so this problem will go away automatically.
Looks suspiciously like bsd.lib.mk includes this file... but now I'm lost ;)
where do all the other defines for libraries come from?
> >Oops, one last thing: should ./usr.bin/lex/lib be built twice in the
> >bootstrapping of 'make world' (as part of lib-tools and libraries) and
>
> It doesn't hurt.
It uses CPU cycles without any gain, therefore the net result is -ve.
Thanks for the input.
-Jeremy
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