Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:52:26 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/include/Makefile,v 1.109 is broken Message-ID: <20000127185226.A84871@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <24738.948990848@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 06:34:08PM %2B0200 References: <20000127170058.A57120@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <24738.948990848@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 06:34:08PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:00:58 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > An attached patch seems to fix the problem. > > Does anybody actually understand what's really going on in this file? > Everyone uses the words "seems to" and "I think" when they're proposing > fixes in this file. > Disregard my "seems" word above, it really fixes the problem ;=) BTW, I has given a comment: | The idea was that `copies' should first undo all the | things `symlinks' did, but it is broken now. > I propose that we hold out for a fix which is accompanied by comments > that explain what the hell all these oddball variables are used for and > why SHARED is overridden (or used at all in the buildworld case). > Obviously, to speed up the building process. > Ruslan, if I misunderstood your words, please don't take offense. It's > just that this'll be the 5th commit in this regard without comment > from Marcel, who was responsible for rewriting most of this Makefile > recently. > I was told by Alexey Zelkin that Marcel was hired by some giant company, and he asked for FreeBSD vacation for some time (though I personally did not see such a message)... -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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