From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 24 04:18:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA17746 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 04:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA17590 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 04:18:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.5] (user5.dataplex.net [208.2.87.5]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA20200; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:17:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199807230428.VAA15996@usr05.primenet.com> References: <199807221200.WAA17349@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 22, 98 10:00:25 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:17:08 -0500 To: Terry Lambert From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Does building current on 2.2.x still work? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:28 PM -0500 7/22/98, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Yes, installing .mk files just to bootstrap would cause much the same >> problems as making the infamous `includes' target just to bootstrap. >I think it should just use the right ones. If necessary, it should >build the new make to get the -m option for the reinvocation of make. > >A "worse than 'includes'" problem is DESTDIR. It means that you can't >keep a buildable system while attempting to resolve >It does this because there is no seperation of >"build environment" from "build target". Keep preaching, Terry. Perhaps you can eventually gain some converts and they will allow the reorganization necessary to catch up with the capabilities that we had 35 years ago. Needless to say, I tried and gave up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message