Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:19:40 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> Cc: NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boostrap target Message-ID: <1444094380.66572.109.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1444093706.6210.26.camel@me.com> References: <1444087075.6210.17.camel@me.com> <33379C03-977C-47B5-93AB-447715A9C215@gmail.com> <1444093706.6210.26.camel@me.com>
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On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 18:08 -0700, Rui Paulo wrote: > On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 17:40 -0700, NGie Cooper wrote: > > > On Oct 5, 2015, at 16:17, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> wrote: > > > > > > Ian and I were trying to figure out how the boostrap target gets > > > called > > > in usr.bin/lex/Makefile. It seems to be part of afterdepend, but I > > > couldn't figure out how it gets added. Any ideas? > > > > Looking at ^/head/Makefile@r35703, `make bootstrap` for > > usr.bin/lex/Makefile@r35703 was broken when bootstrap-tools, etc, was > > written. > > That doesn't answer my question because I still don't know how it gets > added to afterdepend. > I think what you found that's related to afterdepend has something to do with META_MODE stuff that shouldn't be in play for the problem I was chasing. It appears that the only makefiles in the system that have a bootstrap: target are the latest version of lex (but not the version we had before it), and contrib/binutils and contrib/gcc. In other words, by searching and by experimenting, I've concluded the answer to "What invokes the bootstrap: target in makefiles?" is "Nothing does, since 1999." -- Ian
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