atom feed6 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-portsSUBDIR in Makefiles - usage thereof
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Julian Howard StaceyMay 17, 1995 5:33 am 
Satoshi Asami | 浅見 賢May 17, 1995 10:04 am 
Rodney W. GrimesMay 17, 1995 1:04 pm 
Jean-Marc ZucconiMay 17, 1995 1:50 pm 
Satoshi Asami | 浅見 賢May 18, 1995 1:06 am 
Julian Howard StaceyMay 18, 1995 4:54 am 
Subject:SUBDIR in Makefiles - usage thereof
From:Julian Howard Stacey (jh@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
Date:May 17, 1995 5:33:40 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-ports

I suggest a minor syntax re-org of ports/Makefile & ports/*/Makefile :

Present: SUBDIR = this that the_other foobar Future SUBDIR?= SUBDIR += this SUBDIR += that SUBDIR += the_other SUBDIR += foobar

This will enable a higher success ratio when multiple & possibly overlapping/ inconsistent patch scripts, that are are applied from time to time on local ports dirs that aren't monolithcally & repetitively remade on the odd spare gigabyte drive that we all have handy ;-)

This minor change buys flexibility, it's also been tried & tested before (& is still to be seen in such files as src/Makefile)

I also propose we prepend a SUBDIR?= to allow for extra things `on the fly', this hook would allow (eg) to have `ports in progress' that we want in the tree for some reason, but don't want automatically compiled ... yet.

Whether this is done before or after 2.0.5 is (I imagine) Satoshi's choice.

Julian S.