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From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:03:20AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > - Redoing the build system (make files), because it clearly shows its
> >   age and several things are broken, e.g. OBJDIR.
> 
> Makes sense.  I'd be happier seeing a comprehensive list of the things
> that are broken though, so we can measure the replacement and make sure
> it solves the problems.

Yes, a few of the recent additions (like mirrors.xml) broke parts of
the build, and it might be better to just fix those broken commits of
the past few years rather than starting from scratch.

I think the general bsdmake infrastructure of the doc project is a
strong advantage of this doc project over others.  I'm aware of few
others that allow one to build html/postscript/pdf/text versions of
the complete doc set as easily as we can.

Murray