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Date:      Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:33:31 +0000
From:      John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, John Birrell <jb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r189537 - projects/jbuild/usr.sbin/config
Message-ID:  <20090309143331.GA57289@what-creek.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090308164708.GA97383@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <200903081629.n28GTxBH087773@svn.freebsd.org> <20090308164708.GA97383@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> maybe a naive question, but isn't there a way to construct
> these Buildfile's (and Buildfile.dirdep, assuming they are
> not there by mistake) automatically from the existing Makefiles ?

In the simple cases, the Makefile to Buildfile conversion is
straight forward. However there are enough "special" cases where
the files have to be cleaned up.

> It's going to be a nightmare to support both Makefile
> and Buildfile.

I'm not sure this is true. The Buildfiles aren't intended to be
merged back to head -- they will stay in the project branch.

--
John Birrell



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