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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:21:22 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r362040 - head/devel/gmake-lite
Message-ID:  <20140717032122.GA59585@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B40AB33-1184-433F-AAFE-A329B0C4BD68@adamw.org>
References:  <201407160644.s6G6iIiY091220@svn.freebsd.org> <4B40AB33-1184-433F-AAFE-A329B0C4BD68@adamw.org>

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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:12:52PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> On 16 Jul, 2014, at 2:44, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > New Revision: 362040
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/362040
> > QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r362040/
> > 
> > Log:
> >  Ensure gmake-lite never tries to build documentation
> > 
> > Modified:
> >  head/devel/gmake-lite/Makefile
> 
> What's the deal with gmake-lite? There's no info about it in CHANGES,
> UPDATING, the PHB, Uses/gmake.mk, or on ports-announce@. Am I supposed
> to be using it as a porter? As a user?

>From commit log, it was added to simplify the process of removing texinfo
and groff from base (avoid circular dependencies).  I would assume that
it is just a temporary measure and hope it will die soon.  I do not think
that anyone (or anything) should be using it instead of "normal" make(1)
or gmake(1).

./danfe



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