Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:02:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/etc/isdn Makefile src/etc/m Message-ID: <XFMail.20020719090222.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020719210904.Q12629-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On 19-Jul-2002 Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> Log: >> s/${INSTALL} -c/${INSTALL} ${COPY}/ > > Strongly unapproved by: bde. > > This change is to help work around the foot-shooting of making -d > incompatible with -C and -p in install(1)'s flags. It abuses the old > poorly named COPY variable which had become a no-op. Now COPY is still > poorly named but has different semantics. All this is like breaking > cc to reject combinations of flags that don't really go together (e.g., > -I doesn't go with linking) instead of just ignoring the flags that > don't apply to the current operation, and then working around this > foot-shooting by splitting up CFLAGS and changing many Makefiles to > only use the part of CFLAGS that is relevant. Agreed, I still don't see why '-d' doesn't just cause '-C' to be ignored. It seems that most people prefer that behavior as well from my recollection of the various threads. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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