In message <p06002065bd1a0a3116a6_at_[10.0.1.3]>, Brad Knowles writes: >At 11:49 PM +0200 2004-07-13, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > The way to fix this problem is to fix it. Correct. Removing the "world" target as the original poster proposed is not a fix. > All that stuff is wrong anyway. There's no reason we should >continue to support that. Hey, pc98, ia64 and IPv6 are "just wrong anyway" too :-) There are countless people out there with working scripts which use make world and there is no reason why we should rip the carpet out from under them either. > If you've got one, I'd love to hear it. So far, I haven't heard >of anything better. I havn't heard any workable solutions so far. The fact that "make world" is used as the canonical example of the benefit of FreeBSD in countless piecs of advocacy means that the only way this can be fixed is by making make world fail when it should. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 20:04:03 UTC
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