cvs commit: src Makefile README

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 20 23:35:07 UTC 2006


On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:51:40 -0600 (MDT)
"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> In message: <200606201714.10331.jhb at freebsd.org>
>             John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:
> : On Tuesday 20 June 2006 16:41, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > In message: <200606201516.39121.jhb at freebsd.org>
> : >             John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> writes:
> : > : On Tuesday 20 June 2006 14:53, David O'Brien wrote:
> : > : > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:43:00PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> : > : > > Personally, I was debating on just removing most of the
> : > : > > world target with just a message:
> : > : > > 
> : > : > > "The world target has been replaced with the buildworld target."
> : > : > 
> : > : > No!
> : > : > 
> : > : > 'make world' is still my normal building process.  Why force
> : > : > "make buildworld && make installworld"??
> : > : > 
> : > : > I don't care how undocumented it is, or obfusacted
> : > : > 'HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD' is; but please leave them alone!
> : > : > 
> : > : > thanks for your attention.
> : > : 
> : > : You can already get that via 'make DESTDIR=/ world' you know. :)  And 
> : that's 
> : > : shorter to type.
> : > 
> : > It has been pointed out to me that you can't put DESTDIR=/ in your
> : > /etc/make.conf file; however, you can put HISTORICAL_MAKE_WORLD=y in
> : > there.
> : 
> : Fair enough.  How about just making it undocumented again then? :)
> 
> Works for me.

Doesn't work here.  Sorry.  It's fine that the options stay
there, but personally, I can understand why some users would
be pissed about this being undocumented.  If I started a build
and expected it to run all night, seen it bombed in the
morning, well ... Yea, I'd be pissed too.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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