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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> How about NO_FOO[_INSTALL], where NO_FOO = no build and no install,
> and NO_FOO_INSTALL just prevents the install.  In theory, you could
> build the complete system, then use NO_FOO_INSTALL instead of rm(1).

Why not 'make buildworld ; make -DNO_FOO installworld'?  Won't that do
the same thing with out littering up the Makefiles with NO_FOO_INSTALL
knobs?   (there are clean ways of adding NO_FOO_INSTALL programaically,
but that will take a little overhaul to do)

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)