Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:37:28 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: make includes Message-ID: <XFMail.20020515083728.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020515161610.U7103-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On 15-May-2002 Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > >> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:38:49PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >> > > I really do not like this change, please return things such that the >> > > long-ingraned "cd /usr/src ; make includes". >> > >> > I planned to fix this by changing "make includes" to print >> > "Unwarranted chumminess with implementation". >> >> What is your perfered way to get the results of >> (cd /usr/src ; make includes) ? > > I prefer not to do this. There are simpler methods to get broken > headers, starting with rm -rf :). I prefer everyone to use (documented) > user-level targets like "world" and "install" for installing includes, > since it would be difficult to make the includes target safe for general > use. I don't know what it really useful for. It's useful for a new arch that doesn't have make world yet. When I would update world on my sparc before gcc was bmake'd it went something like this: > sudo make includes > sudo make libraries > make obj && make depend && make > sudo make install To build and install a new world. -- 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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