Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 13:08:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-usrbin@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/chflags Makefile Message-ID: <199507242008.NAA19813@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199507241800.EAA26941@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 25, 95 04:00:03 am
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> > >Why shouldn't: > >ECHO?= echo > >INSTALL?= install > > >be there? > > Because `echo' and `install' aren't referenced in the default rules. This > argument also applies to the following macros in sys.mk: > > unix > .LIBS > X11BASE > AR, ARFLAGS, RANLIB > CPP > LDFLAGS > LINT, LINTFLAGS > RC > MAKE > SHELL I think some of those are either there for historical reasons, or possible requirements of Posix.2. I really really need to go get me a full set of Posix doc's I guess :-(. > >I can agree that ECHODIR should die, not so sure what to do with > >SUBDIRUSE and `===> path', pmake does not have a -w flag. > > >Does gnu make have subdir processing built in? > > I don't think it has the equivalent of bsd.subdir.mk. Printing the > current directory when make is started would be easy. gmake prints > `Entering directory foo ... Leaving directory foo'. It is noisy. Oh, yea, that, uggh.... and we both hate ``Noisy'' things you can't turn off easily :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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