FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2/alpha successes/failures

[Peter Jeremy]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:02:52PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>You seem to have deleted your src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1plus/Makefile.

Oops.  You're right.  Mea cupla.

>Here's what happens here.  The make(1) (the one that's run during
>a buildworld) is passed the "-m src/share/mk" argument.  Since it
>cannot find a makefile in .CURDIR (src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1plus) it
>ends up using the src/share/mk/Makefile.  Here's the demo:
>
>$ cd /var/empty && make -n
>make: no target to make.
>$ cd /var/empty && make -n -m /usr/src/share/mk
>make: don't know how to make bsd.README. Stop

Thanks for that explanation.  "missing Makefile" doesn't immediately
come to mind as the cause of that message.

Peter