Re: mergemaster broken?

From: Stijn Hoop <stijn_at_win.tue.nl>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:37:43 +0100
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:22:39PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:40:06PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >>> Should we also document that -m is suppose to be src's etc dir instead
> >>> of src?  I've accidentally pointed -m at src, and then it does a make
> >>> which is quite ammuzing as it's completely the wrong thing...  Or now
> >>> that we call outside of /etc, should we make -m really point to src,
> >>> and have the proper calls add etc to the directory?
> 
> I strongly dislike the idea of changing the semantics of the -m option. It's
> been the way it is since day 1, and I really hate to make changes to
> something like that. I can see a case for making the man page more clear,
> but I'd rather work around the problem with -m than change the semantics.

FWIW, I've _always_ cursed this option; I keep forgetting to point it
at a subdirectory of the one I use 'make installworld' in. If you ask me,
this is one of those 'please break backwards compatibility for the sake
of keeping people sane' kind of things.

My EUR 0.02,

--Stijn

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