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Date:      Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:01:30 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        grog@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, marcel@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src Makefile
Message-ID:  <4611DFAA.1040803@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070402.223834.-75256160.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200704022132.l32LWjwt084642@repoman.freebsd.org>	<20070403012527.GH19923@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20070402.223834.-75256160.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On 04/02/07 23:38, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20070403012527.GH19923@wantadilla.lemis.com>
>             "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : On Monday,  2 April 2007 at 21:32:44 +0000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> : > marcel      2007-04-02 21:32:44 UTC
> : >
> : >   FreeBSD src repository
> : >
> : >   Modified files:
> : >     .                    Makefile
> : >   Log:
> : >   Introduce a variable TARGETS that can be set on the make command
> : >   line
> : 
> : This sounded excellent until I read on.
> : 
> : >   and that controls which platforms are being built as part of a
> : >   "make universe".
> : 
> : That's not quite what I had expected with a variable called TARGETS.
> : Wouldn't PLATFORMS be more "intuitive"?
> 
> Not really.  TARGET is the name of the variable you speficy now to
> build one world.  TARGETS seems like a natural extension to me...


Maybe what he wanted was DESTINATIONS.


Eric



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