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Re: CVS commit: src/etc/mtree



On Tue, 06 Sep 2011, Christos Zoulas wrote:
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).

We definitely don't want to add such magic. Please revert. Otherwise we should go and do this in 100's of Makefiles.

I certainly see no reason to make similar changes in hundreds of Makefiles; only in the few places where people actually encounter (and report) problems traceable to this sort of issue. There have been only a few such issues, and we have fixed all the others (elsewhere under src/etc).

I have an idea for letting "make cleandir" deal with this problem,
and may be willing to revert if that works out.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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