On Tue, 14 May 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:32:19PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Installing includes just corrupts the host environment unless the new > > includes are consistent with the old libraries. If you know the build > > system, the includes and the libraries well enough to know when it is > > safe to use, then you know enough to never need it. > > > People might want to use it like that: > > make world > mv /usr/include /usr/include.old > make incsinstall > > To remove stale includes. Previous version had "includes" that both > built and installed includes, I have just split it in two parts.
That's rather hackish, and doesn't handle garbage other than includes. I usually find stale files by comparing my world with a world installed in a nonstandard DESTDIR. A mergemaster-like utility could automate this. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
