From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 19:14:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB9616A4CF for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:14:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DB543D46 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:14:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27046 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2004 19:14:49 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Aug 2004 19:14:49 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.208 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i79JEjHo076363; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:14:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Harti Brandt Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:00:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <7mllgolwsk.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <200408091345.48263.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040809205012.K32590@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <20040809205012.K32590@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408091500.28587.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: johan@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile main.c nonints.h var.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:14:50 -0000 On Monday 09 August 2004 02:51 pm, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Baldwin wrote: > > JB>On Monday 09 August 2004 11:54 am, Harti Brandt wrote: > JB>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: > JB>> > JB>> MWL>In message: <20040809.092824.11587387.imp@bsdimp.com> > JB>> MWL>: The current man page is stunningly vague about this. It says > that it JB>> MWL>: respects these environment variables, but it doesn't say > they have to JB>> MWL>: be set in the enviornment to the exclusion of > setting them on the JB>> MWL>: command line. > JB>> MWL> > JB>> MWL>So either we can make it work, or document that the variables > listed JB>> MWL>in the environment section must be set as environment > variables only. JB>> > JB>> There is nothing to be made work. Both variables are intended to be > used JB>> as environment variables. That they happend to work from the > command line JB>> was a side effect of make putting its variables into the > environment. JB>> Does the following clarify things enough? > JB> > JB>Doesn't change the fact that it can break existing scripts. I typically > do JB> > JB>% worldloop -j 64 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test > JB> > JB>on my test boxes (worldloop is a script that does a 'make buildworld > "$@"' in JB>a loop). Can't be fixed I guess. > > Wouldn't > > MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test worldloop -j 64 ^^ env (I'm a tcsh user). It will work, but the other one is already programmed into my brain. :-/ -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org