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List: netbsd-tech-toolchain
Subject: Re: Excising Check_Cwd* from make.
From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg () crufty ! net>
Date: 2003-08-02 0:33:48
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>I seem to recall that this was a hack to detect Makefiles that
>did this:
> target:
> ${MAKE} other-target
>when they should really have done this:
> target:
> cd ${.CURDIR} && ${MAKE} other-target
Correct. This was not a problem in Makefiles that expected an objdir to
exist, but when using MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX intermediate directories also get
objdirs and many of those did not cater for it.
>As far as I know, the NetBSD source tree doesn't contain any such broken
>Makefiles. But perhaps pkgsrc or third party sources would still benefit
>from this hack?
I suspect not.
Thanks
--sjg
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