Re: CVS commit: src/etc/mtree

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 15:13:49 +0100, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:57:02AM +0000, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > > Module Name:      src
> > > Committed By:     apb
> > > Date:             Mon Sep  5 09:57:02 UTC 2011
> > >
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   src/etc/mtree: Makefile
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > Use ${.OBJDIR}/NetBSD.dist.tmp instead of just NetBSD.dist.tmp.
> > > This fixes a problem in which NetBSD.dist.tmp had been created in
> > > the SRCDIR by an earlier build (performed without an OBJDIR), and
> > > the existence of the file in the SRCDIR confused a subsequent build
> > > (performed with an OBJDIR).
> >
> > Do we really want to add special cases like this? There are all kinds of
> > mysterious errors triggered by unclean SRCDIR, I don't think it is worth
> > adding this specific hack.
> 
> IMO these cases are worth handling just because if an OBJDIR is specified,
> it should be used. The alternative being that the OBJDIR is used
> "sometimes"?  Thats just wrong..

So whay do you treat NetBSD.dist.tmp and NetBSD.dist differently then?
If you go down that path, where do you stop?

-uwe