Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 06:24:22 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make installworld broken??? Message-ID: <00013106294500.00823@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001311128130.97346-100000@mx.webgiro.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001311128130.97346-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, John Polstra wrote:
>
> > > > It's source-dir is called "xinstall" btw.
> > > Why is the source called "xinstall"?
> >
> > To avoid colliding with the standard make target "install". If we
> > had utilities named "all", "depend", and "clean" we'd have to do the
> > same thing for them.
>
> Mhmmm... Isn't this something that .PHONY target is supposed to handle?
How does that help? The problem is namespace pollution.
Consider
cd /usr/src/usr.bin
make install
Does this mean
cd /usr/src/usr.bin/install
make all
or
.for d in ${SUBDIRS}
(cd /usr/src/usr.bin/${d}; make install)
.endfor
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