lzma support in `stable' has potential issues

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Jeremy Chadwick
<freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:58:56PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>       I recently wiped off my Lenovo again to get a fresh install of
>>       FreeBSD on it, and started out at 8.0-RELEASE (it's the media
>>       that I had on hand at the time). Upgrading to 8-STABLE appears
>>       to be problematic though.  On a few different occasions I ran
>>       into issues doing the following:
>>
>>       make -C /usr/src/usr.bin/lzmainfo depend - fails to find the
>>       appropriate headers
>>
>>       make -C /usr/src/lib/liblzma install - fails to install the
>>       headers into /usr/include/lzma
>>
>>       Etc. I didn't see these issues before lzma was imported into the
>>       tree, which makes me wonder whether or not there are some
>>       missing build or install dependencies somewhere.
>
> buildworld/installworld does the Right Thing(tm), while the above
> "one-off" makes do not.

buildworld got hung up a lot on the same problems as the one-off makes.

> I don't think there's any guarantee "make depend" and "make install" in
> the individual /usr/src/{whatever} directories will do what you want it
> to.  It seems to be a per-piece thing; there's no "universal standard"
> (aside from buildworld/installworld) is what I'm getting at.

This is sad because it implies (to me) that the concept of depend,
installincludes, etc is broken :(.

Thanks,
-Garrett