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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:29:57 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile.inc src/sbin/adjkerntz Makefile src/sbin/atacontrol Makefile src/sbin/atm/atm Makefile src/sbin/atm/fore_dnld Makefile src/sbin/atm/ilmid Makefile src/sbin/badsect Makefile src/sbin/camcontrol Makefile ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103221824510.10069-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010322020349.E5821@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 05:49:14PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > It is an old problem that `make install' doesn't work outside of an
> > almost full tree (mainly because BINDIR is not set).  Failing at build
> > time is more of a problem.
> 
> People can't really expect to just checkout something and have it work.
> Their mk code needs to be uptodate (just like with ports).

Well, developers do :-).  The Makefiles have a few hacks to support
nonstandard environments and peter just committed another one in
libkvm/Makefile...

Bruce


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