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Date:      Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:52:25 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, flz@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config main.c
Message-ID:  <43CB42A9.8090601@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060115.231029.62233420.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200601140812.k0E8CQPI036267@repoman.freebsd.org>	<20060116041146.GA23438@dragon.NUXI.org> <20060115.231029.62233420.imp@bsdimp.com>

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M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <20060116041146.GA23438@dragon.NUXI.org>
>             "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 08:12:25AM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> : >   Modified files:
> : >     usr.sbin/config      main.c 
> : >   Log:
> : >   - Change the exit message from "make cleandepend; make depend" to
> : >   "make cleandepend && make depend".
> : 
> : I still think we should go back to the traditional:
> :     "Don't forget to do ``make depend''\n"
> : 
> : The 'make cleandepend' step was to work around brokeness in 'make depend'.
> : If 'make depend' is still so broken that one must do 'make cleandepend'
> : first, then 'make depend' should just blow away all the .depend files
> : first.
> 
> Sadly, that won't work.
> 
> Warner

Not that I don't believe you, but can you explain why it won't work? 
What happened that caused 10+ years of 'working' to turn to 'not working'?

Scott




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