Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 06:17:08 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does building current on 2.2.x still work? Message-ID: <l03110701b1de1bafebbc@[208.2.87.5]> In-Reply-To: <199807230428.VAA15996@usr05.primenet.com> References: <199807221200.WAA17349@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 22, 98 10:00:25 pm
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At 11:28 PM -0500 7/22/98, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Yes, installing .mk files just to bootstrap would cause much the same >> problems as making the infamous `includes' target just to bootstrap. >I think it should just use the right ones. If necessary, it should >build the new make to get the -m option for the reinvocation of make. > >A "worse than 'includes'" problem is DESTDIR. It means that you can't >keep a buildable system while attempting to resolve >It does this because there is no seperation of >"build environment" from "build target". Keep preaching, Terry. Perhaps you can eventually gain some converts and they will allow the reorganization necessary to catch up with the capabilities that we had 35 years ago. Needless to say, I tried and gave up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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