On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:18:04AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > 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. > Yes, I do this the same way actually. :-)
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