Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:51:07 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile README Message-ID: <200606090851.08830.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060608233110.R93122@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <200606070333.k573XmRc067920@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060607194300.7565e832.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20060608233110.R93122@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Thursday 08 June 2006 15:32, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > TR> > I thought the obfuscation was intentional as very few people should be doing > TR> > a 'make world' without a custom DESTDIR these days. Certainly people new to > TR> > FreeBSD shouldn't be doing it; only those with the command hardwired into > TR> > their brains. We've had buildworld/installworld since 2.2.5 (or 2.2.6) I > TR> > think as I've only had to do a 'make world' once to go from 2.2.2 to > TR> > 2.2.6. :) > TR> > TR> Heh, I agree, "make world" isn't really needed. But it was > TR> either a quick comment about it and link to the handbook where > TR> we advocate "buildworld" or remove the world target. Of course, > TR> we could just do nothing and let users continue to submit PRs > TR> about it bombing with a complaint of an undocumented make(1) > TR> option. > TR> > TR> Personally, I was debating on just removing most of the > TR> world target with just a message: > TR> > TR> "The world target has been replaced with the buildworld target." > TR> > TR> But stepped back due to bikeshed potential. ;) > > Hmm, maybe just bomb out on make'ing world without DESTDIR defined? Original > behaviour would be emulated with simply DESTDIR=/ then... That is what it already does basically. -- John Baldwin
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