Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:20:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile main.c nonints.h var.c Message-ID: <20040809211848.L32590@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <200408091500.28587.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <7mllgolwsk.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <200408091345.48263.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200408091500.28587.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Baldwin wrote: JB>On Monday 09 August 2004 02:51 pm, Harti Brandt wrote: JB>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Baldwin wrote: JB>> JB>> JB>On Monday 09 August 2004 11:54 am, Harti Brandt wrote: JB>> JB>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: JB>> JB>> JB>> JB>> MWL>In message: <20040809.092824.11587387.imp@bsdimp.com> JB>> JB>> MWL>: The current man page is stunningly vague about this. It says JB>> that it JB>> MWL>: respects these environment variables, but it doesn't say JB>> they have to JB>> MWL>: be set in the enviornment to the exclusion of JB>> setting them on the JB>> MWL>: command line. JB>> JB>> MWL> JB>> JB>> MWL>So either we can make it work, or document that the variables JB>> listed JB>> MWL>in the environment section must be set as environment JB>> variables only. JB>> JB>> JB>> There is nothing to be made work. Both variables are intended to be JB>> used JB>> as environment variables. That they happend to work from the JB>> command line JB>> was a side effect of make putting its variables into the JB>> environment. JB>> Does the following clarify things enough? JB>> JB> JB>> JB>Doesn't change the fact that it can break existing scripts. I typically JB>> do JB> JB>> JB>% worldloop -j 64 MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test JB>> JB> JB>> JB>on my test boxes (worldloop is a script that does a 'make buildworld JB>> "$@"' in JB>a loop). Can't be fixed I guess. JB>> JB>> Wouldn't JB>> JB>> MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj.test worldloop -j 64 JB> JB>^^ env JB> JB>(I'm a tcsh user). It will work, but the other one is already programmed into JB>my brain. :-/ Is that a flash or a ROM? In the first case there is some hope :-) harti
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