From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 10 10:49:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D8337B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:49:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C1143FAF for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:49:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 7E2C2AE25C; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:49:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:49:34 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Peter Wemm Cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk, Sheldon Hearn , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indiscriminately installing all .h files in /usr/include/* Message-ID: <20030210184934.GW88781@elvis.mu.org> References: <38936.1044878765@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030210183517.5F0052A8BB@canning.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030210183517.5F0052A8BB@canning.wemm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Peter Wemm [030210 10:35] wrote: > phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: > > In message <20030210114740.GG5355@starjuice.net>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >On (2003/02/08 14:31), phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: > > > > > >> Not being the kind of guy who casually walks through /usr/include > > >> once in a while, I only now just discovered that "make installincludes" > > >> indiscriminately installs all .h files under /usr/include. > > >> > > >> I understand the desirablity of simple makefile magic for this task, > > >> but couldn't we agree on some sort of magic-marker to put in files > > >> we want or don't want installed in /usr/include ? > > > > > >Could you give some specific examples of files you wouldn't want > > >installed by this target? > > > > geom/geom.h for starters. > > > > Other examples: > > cam/cam_extend.h > > cam/cam_periph.h > > cam/cam_queue.h > > I've been wondering if we need an explicit list of files to install for > a while. We've got lots of junk in /usr/include/dev/* that really shouldn't > be there. The only stuff that should be there are things to define > sysctl, ioctl etc user interfaces. Things like hardware register definitions > and random driver internals definitions do not really belong there. > /usr/include/usb/* is a good example. We do similar bad things for the > file systems. If there was a way to do it via cpp defines inside the header that would be nice. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message