boostrap target

Rui Paulo rpaulo at me.com
Tue Oct 6 01:54:27 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 19:13 -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> I don't see how changes from 1999 (which is when "${BMAKE} bootstrap"
> disappeared from Makefile.inc1) have anything to do with the fact
> that
> the most recent import of flex (in 2013) added a bootstrap target
> that
> wasn't there previously, and that nothing nowadays invokes it.  I'm
> also
> not really clear on why the latest import added a bootstrap target
> that
> never runs and doesn't seem to be needed (now that I've added a
> dependency so that the new m4 is built before the new lex).

Does that mean your "beforedepend: boostrap" anchor isn't needed
anymore on FreeBSD 8?

-- 
Rui Paulo



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