Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:57:24 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem building -current (gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912200146050.7602-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <385CC6B0.F14A86B0@scc.nl>
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On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > "-b .orig" is used to avoid pollution in the environment (I use > > SIMPLE_BACKUP_PREFIX="~"). It might be better to kill most of the > > environment. > > Hmmm... is forcing `.orig' as the suffix not against POLA? I mean, if It doesn't matter in a temporary directory. > someone has SIMPLE_BACKUP_PREFIX in his/her environment, then he/she > expects to find a backup file with that prefix. The makefile can easily > be rewritten as (with cut-n-paste corruption): Not so easily. The user's SIMPLE_BACKUP_PREFIX may change, so setting CLEANFILES is problematic. > Index: Makefile > ... > -CLEANFILES= gdb-cfg.texi inc-hist.texi inc-hist.texi.orig > +CLEANFILES= gdb-cfg.texi inc-hist.texi This just breaks CLEANFILES. "inc-hist.text*" would risk clobbering the source file inc-hist.texi (but is safe here because the source file is in another directory). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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