svn commit: r284345 - in head: . bin/cat bin/chflags bin/chio bin/chmod bin/cp bin/csh bin/date bin/dd bin/df bin/domainname bin/echo bin/ed bin/expr bin/freebsd-version bin/getfacl bin/hostname bi...

[Oliver Pinter]

On 6/14/15, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
> Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Some questions about this commit, which I'm sure more people must have:
>
> Sure, good questions and as you say, many likely thinking the same.
>
>> * Was it really necessary to commit hundreds of clearly generated files?
>
> Short answer is "yes" - since they are actually what makes the build
> work.
>
>> * Couldn't these be generated on the fly, or with some "make depend" like
>> command?
>
> The whole point is to avoid that overhead.
>
>> * How to update these files, if you change anything in the 'real'
>> Makefiles?
>
> For now don't worry about it, those of us that want to build/play with
> meta mode will take care of updating them.
>
> Simply building in meta mode is all that is needed to update them.
>
>> * Or are you now the maintainer of these .depend files? :-)
>
> For now, yes.
> I think that's the only reasonable approach at this early stage.

Cool! What is you github account? I like to add your access to our
repo, and please fix this issue:
http://jenkins.hardenedbsd.org:8180/jenkins/job/HardenedBSD-master-amd64/133/consoleFull
>
> Thanks
> --sjg
>
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