[CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 25 21:15:23 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:11:29AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> two independent efforts (ATF & bmake) and there was no indication that
> one would be greatly benefitted from the other. At least not to the
> point of creating a dependency.

It seems we do have the situation where folks feel there is a dependency
between the two.

> Before we can switch permanently to bmake, we need to do the following
> first:
> 1.  Request an EXP ports build with bmake as make(1). This should tell
>     us the "damage" of switching to bmake for ports.
> 2.  In parallel with 1: build www & docs with bmake and assess the
>     damage
> 3.  Fix all the damage
>
> It could be a while (many weeks) before we get to 4, so the question

Given the time this will take, I feel we need to add another knob to the
Bmake build so that 'make world' gives one both the FreeBSD make as
/usr/bin/make and Bmake as /usr/bin/bmake.

thoughts,
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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