Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:44:48 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people think of this change to /usr/src/Makefile? Message-ID: <2298.835472688@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:49:51 BST." <199606221849.TAA00381@linus.demon.co.uk>
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> My only real point is that catering for folks with such lack of procedural > discipline by adding bloat to an already complex core part of the system is > generally asking for trouble. For anyone with a clue (which should include I don't see wanting to do simultaneous makes using a *stock* source tree as any lack of procedural discipline. I was very disappointed in the BSD source tree mechanism when I saw how badly they'd muffed it with the symlinks and this is just my attempt to FIX it. > This is a minor case in point, but a few of these add up to have a significan t > effect on the simplicity of the system (perhaps making more important future > changes that little bit harder to preserve compatibility). Actually, if you want to look at the .mk files again you'll find that I've greatly *simplified* things in many major respects! Jordan
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