Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, Why are include files installed using -C instead of -c? This makes it harder to find stale includes. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:06:22 +0100, David Malone wrote: If you changed the date on header files which hadn't changed then next time you typed make on a project with carfully set up dependencies everything would end up getting recompiled. That's certainly something one could argue as a

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:17:05 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: In that case, I'd really like to make this behaviour in the build optional so that it's easy for FreeBSD developers to easily identify stale includes. Perhaps I could replace all instances of the -C option to install(8) with

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:18:56 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Hell, we already have COPY, we're just not using it. I'll submit patches for review to the appropriate lists. Hmmm. After a little more investigation, it seems I just need CLOBBER support, which was removed from Makefile.inc1 in rev

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sheldon Hearn writes: : : : On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:48:36 CST, Warner Losh wrote: : : : Why are include files installed using -C instead of -c? This makes it : : harder to find stale includes. : : I've wanted to have a /etc/mtree/bsd.obsolete for a long time

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:58:02 CST, Warner Losh wrote: The reason I'd like to see it isn't so that make world kills things automatically, but so that I could kill them (or at least find out what should be killed) on systems that had FreeBSD 1.0 installed on them, then upgraded, disk cloned,

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:48:36 CST, Warner Losh wrote: : Why are include files installed using -C instead of -c? This makes it : harder to find stale includes. I've wanted to have a /etc/mtree/bsd.obsolete for a long time now... That would make me too nervous. All I really want is the

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sheldon Hearn writes: : Why are include files installed using -C instead of -c? This makes it : harder to find stale includes. I've wanted to have a /etc/mtree/bsd.obsolete for a long time now... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:43:35PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Why are include files installed using -C instead of -c? This makes it harder to find stale includes. If you changed the date on header files which hadn't changed then next time you typed make on a project with carfully set up

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Brian Dean
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:06:44PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:58:02 CST, Warner Losh wrote: The reason I'd like to see it isn't so that make world kills things automatically, but so that I could kill them (or at least find out what should be killed) on systems

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Brian Somers
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:58:02 CST, Warner Losh wrote: The reason I'd like to see it isn't so that make world kills things automatically, but so that I could kill them (or at least find out what should be killed) on systems that had FreeBSD 1.0 installed on them, then upgraded, disk