Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 18:40:15 +1000 (EST) From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Am I wrong or is this just stupid?r Message-ID: <199608230840.SAA27817@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <28689.840787950@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 23, 96 01:12:30 am
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> Looking more at our make world methodology, I'm wondering at
> stuff like this:
>
> # lib-tools - build tools to compile and install the libraries.
> #
> lib-tools:
> cd ${.CURDIR}/usr.bin/tsort && \
> ${MAKE} ${MK_FLAGS} all install ${CLEANDIR} ${OBJDIR}
> ... ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I know that one can turn this off by whacking CLEANDIR, but why even
> do this at all for the intermediate build targets? We build the
> miscellaneous build tools, the compiler tools and all the core
> libraries only to throw away the results of all that work so that we
> can come around and do it all over again when it comes time to make it
> all from the top. I've looked at all the ordering issues with this
> and I still can't see the logic of it. Anyone in opposition to simply
>
> Jordan
Keeping in mind that install is before ${CLEANDIR}, I believe the idea
is to remake the tools _with_the_new_tools_ before using them to remake
other things. i.e if you upgraded to gcc2.7.2 then first make gcc2.7.2
with your old gcc, then remake it with the new one.
--
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons
than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may
sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who
torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with
the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_
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