On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:42:04PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Barney Wolff wrote: > > > Will somebody please tell me when "make world" is ever correct in the > > environment of the last several years? I've been unable to understand > > its continued existence as a target. > > >From my normal world-building script: > > DESTDIR=/c/z/root \ > MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/c/z/obj \ > time -l make -s world > /tmp/world.out 2>&1 Oh, so it's only correct when you're not really installing world on the system you're building on? Would replacing this with ( make buildworld && make installworld ) really be a hardship? Must we continue to invite innocents to clobber their systems? -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.Received on Sat Nov 22 2003 - 09:13:35 UTC
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