Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:54:07 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> Subject: Re: Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon Message-ID: <20041202205407.GD78684@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20041202204413.GN753@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20041128202656.GL750@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20041129060320.GA26868@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20041129185546.GA74655@freebsdmall.com> <20041202204413.GN753@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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--3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:44:13PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2004.11.29 10:55:46 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:03:20AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > - Redoing the build system (make files), because it clearly shows i= ts > > > > age and several things are broken, e.g. OBJDIR. > > >=20 > > > Makes sense. I'd be happier seeing a comprehensive list of the things > > > that are broken though, so we can measure the replacement and make su= re > > > it solves the problems. > >=20 > > Yes, a few of the recent additions (like mirrors.xml) broke parts of > > the build, and it might be better to just fix those broken commits of > > the past few years rather than starting from scratch. >=20 > OBJDIR was broken way before mirrors.xml. Also, I'm not really > talking about starting on a clean slate. Of course parts of the the > current buildsystem is just fine, but others are just a mess. > I can confirm that, since I'm guilty of this OBJDIR issue. It's not possible to "easily" fix it without changing a lot of things, so it's better to start a rewrite from zero. Marc --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBr4Ds81T1MWxkgcoRArh4AJ9CnH3h29A7lo2AxiBtNyCavJCOvQCdE/9U aGwAXx8Wr69kKqYrv0FC6Gc= =Qufa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ--
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