What would the downside be of simply changing the behavior of the -i option to 
just do an install (no build)?

Sverre


On Wednesday 22 January 2003 06:06, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:28:07PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>   | > All `-i idir' does is installs from DESTDIR to idir after the
>   | > buildtarget (which defaults to "build") completes.
>   |
>   | That's the problem.  It would be less confusing if the buildtarget
>   | defaulted to "do nothing" (or the do_buildsystem variable in build.sh
>   | defaulted to false) and if there were a separate command line option to
>   | set do_buildsystem=true and buildtarget=build.  Unfortunately, both
>   | "-b" and "-B" options are already taken.
>   |
>   | One way forward would be to add some action args (like "bmake",
>   | "tools", "build", "release", "install") so we could do stuff like
>   |
>   | 	build.sh [-options] build install
>   |
>   | to build and install (like "-i idir" today), or
>   |
>   | 	build.sh [-options] install
>   |
>   | to just install (like "-b -i idir" today).
>
> This could be a good idea; I'll think it over.  That might work quite
> well actually.
>
> (I've at least changed the usage message on build.sh to separate
> "exclusive build target" options from the "set variable" options.)