cvs commit: src/sys/conf kmod.mk

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 3 12:14:32 PDT 2003


On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:11:06PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20031003190617.GI35274 at sunbay.com>, Ruslan Ermilov writes:
> 
> >A bug in our make(1) has been fixed, kmod.mk now depends on this
> >bug fixed, hence we need to update make(1) before using the new
> >kmod.mk.  -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE does the trick.  I personally have
> >the ALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE set in /etc/make.conf on all my -CURRENT
> >machines, but YMMV.
> 
> Ruslan,  You could save yourself a lot of grief if you fixed the bug
> in make, then waited one week, then change makefiles to rely on the
> bugfix.
> 
Yes, Marcel already pointed it out to me (except for suggesting
several weeks), the problem is I did not realize this negative
impact of fixing kmod.mk -- if I knew about it, I'd definitely
do it like this.  I'll try to be more conservative with similar
changes in the future.  Thanks!


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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