svn commit: r286995 - head/share/mk

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/23/2015 9:44 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at freebsd.org
> <mailto:bdrewery at freebsd.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 8/21/15 8:15 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>     > Author: imp
>     > Date: Fri Aug 21 15:15:22 2015
>     > New Revision: 286995
>     > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/286995
>     >
>     > Log:
>     >   Document bsd.progs.mk <http://bsd.progs.mk>, including its
>     status as being strongly
>     >   discouraged and that it will be going away as soon as is
>     practicable.
>     >
>     > Modified:
>     >   head/share/mk/bsd.README
> 
>     I find this functionality irreplaceable for simplicity. The alternative
>     is more Makefiles for simple extra progs. Granted it has meta mode
>     dirdeps issues but I think that is acceptable as there are other ways to
>     address that.
> 
>     Where is this deprecation coming from? Is it just due to bapt's
>     in-progress (but not working) patch at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3444
>     to remove bsd.progs.mk <http://bsd.progs.mk> in place of PROGS in
>     bsd.prog.mk <http://bsd.prog.mk>?
> 
>     I would like to document PROGS properly. I had no idea how it worked
>     until reading over it tonight. If the plan wasn't to remove PROGS itself
>     I will do so.
> 
> 
> It doesn't work and has lots of issues. Those issues haven't been fixed.
> It didn't look like they would be fixed any time soon. It seemed there
> was a consensus to deprecate it because of those issues.
> bapt was part of that group, and his problems with packaging that
> bsd.progs.mk <http://bsd.progs.mk> creates played into this decision.
> 
> If the issues are fixed, then we can change our recommendations based
> on the changed circumstance.
> 
> Warner

Yes I think I've addressed the issues. I'm still testing and will have
it committed soon. It is still fragile, but most of share/mk is.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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