On 15-May-2002 Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:38:49PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> > > I really do not like this change, please return things such that the
>> > > long-ingraned "cd /usr/src ; make includes".
>> >
>> > I planned to fix this by changing "make includes" to print
>> > "Unwarranted chumminess with implementation".
>>
>> What is your perfered way to get the results of
>> (cd /usr/src ; make includes) ?
> 
> I prefer not to do this.  There are simpler methods to get broken
> headers, starting with rm -rf :).  I prefer everyone to use (documented)
> user-level targets like "world" and "install" for installing includes,
> since it would be difficult to make the includes target safe for general
> use.  I don't know what it really useful for.

It's useful for a new arch that doesn't have make world yet.  When I would
update world on my sparc before gcc was bmake'd it went something like this:

> sudo make includes
> sudo make libraries
> make obj && make depend && make
> sudo make install

To build and install a new world.

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