Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:24:57 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <p0611041abd1a49199d83@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040713232214.GA9507@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <26075.1089753893@critter.freebsd.dk> <p06110415bd1a0dedbf1c@[128.113.24.47]> <20040713232214.GA9507@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net>
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At 4:22 PM -0700 7/13/04, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:23:38PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>> a) how about if we print a warning and exit if DESTDIR is
>> not defined? Are there "important" uses of `make world'
>> which do not use DESTDIR?
>
>My thoughts exactly. See attached patch.
Actually, the target should end with some kind of failure, in
case someone has a script that does:
make world && do-next-thing
if we change `make world' to do nothing, then sequences like
this should error-out right away. So I think it should have
a "false" command after all the @echo's...
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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