Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:11:11 +1100 From: Zero Sum <count@shalimar.net.au> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buildworld failure of STABLE as of 18:00 CET 2000-11-03 Message-ID: <00110712111105.54481@shalimar.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20001106125406.B53955@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3A032D99.9345F708@ludd.luth.se> <00110623302802.51494@shalimar.net.au> <20001106125406.B53955@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tuesday 07 November 2000 07:54, you wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:30:28PM +1100, Zero Sum wrote:
> > Maybe I am too old, but the thought of "Make" with mutating targets
> > like that gives me the shudders.
>
> It doesn't.
>
> > The thought of "make <label>" doing two different things, different
> > purposes depending on the iteration number is aestheticly disgusting.
>
> It doesn't really. ``make cleandir'' cleans everything known to be
> generated in the "obj" directory. This includes .depend, tag files,
> .o's, .a's, etc... When you have a /usr/obj/ tree, your "obj" tree is in
> there. If you have a ./obj/ then that is your "obj" tree.
> ``make cleandir'' removes the "obj" tree when it is /usr/obj/. If there
> is no /usr/obj/ or ./obj/, then `.' is your "obj" directory.
>
> So the only thing that is possibly different between runs of
> ``make cleandir'' is the definition of ${OBJDIR}.
In other words, the "target" changes. Yeah. RIght.
Just how long has that sort of bastardisation been going on?
Has it become common?
Maybe I am just too old....
Geoff
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count@shalimar.net.au
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione
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