Overly restrictive checks in the make process

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Sat Jul 21 02:39:36 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:07:49PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> Even better would be for make to realize that it's only doing the
> fetching, and do it anyway.

That still doesn't help with the problem of a user who starts a 10MB
download that won't work on his architecture or OS release.  The code
is all the same.  This is the aggravation we are trying to prevent.

mcl


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