Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:00:56 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile Message-ID: <20020215120056.A13211@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020215004331.B62826@iguana.icir.org> References: <200202150836.g1F8a6P53451@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020215104025.A1139@sunbay.com> <20020215004331.B62826@iguana.icir.org>
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:43:31AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:40:26AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > (wonder why the process cannot be made automatic...)
> > >
> > What do you mean?
>
> couldn't the Makefile derive a tentative list of targets by doing
>
> MAN=`ls *.4`
>
This would be bogus for a variety of reasons:
1. != type of assignment means ls(1) should be present in PATH during
installworld, and we don't have it there (${STRICTTMPPATH}:${INSTALLTMP}).
There are some places where != should not be actually used, and I
will eventually clean then up. It's not normally a problem because
make(1) considers a non-zero exit value as non-fatal, and we don't
usually use != results at `install' phase.
2. This would make it impossible to exclude some manpages from build,
given a good reason.
> and then using special cases to add/remove non-conforming filenames ?
>
You can't remove without using the := type of assigmenent.
Cheers,
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