Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 22:11:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jb@cimlogic.com.au, bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world problem Message-ID: <199806102211.PAA14527@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806102210.IAA16177@cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Jun 11, 98 08:10:44 am
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> > Why is the makefile depending on -o? > > So that it can choose the output file name like other utilities (such as > ld). > > > It makes much more sense to use the -b; at least that way, the > > generated file is fairly recognizable as being the output of yacc. > > I'll let you argue this with Bruce. 8-) No thanks; I already argued it with the official maintainer of Berkeley Yacc after I made -p actually work by escaping the entire namespace into a struct to make the output code C++ and thread safe. > I don't understand what building FreeBSD sources with FreeBSD tools has > to do with obtaining code from the 'net. > > If there is an issue here, I think it is that yacc is not built early > in a make world line make itself is. A second issue is that the make > world should check the kernel version so that a build on 2.2.5, for > example, can build the extra tools early on without penalizing everyone > with later systems. You mean... actually implement the dependencies make is capable of supporting? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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