From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 19 6:58: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D05B14C83; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 06:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA07267; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:57:42 +1100 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:57:24 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: "Stephen J. Roznowski" , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem building -current (gnu/usr.bin/binutils/doc) In-Reply-To: <385CC6B0.F14A86B0@scc.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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