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Re: Building FILES?



 >> > Also, I think we need to research the reasons for the old behaviour
 >> > before changing it.
 >> If I understand correctly the only purpose of FILES:= at the end of file
 >> is to allow multiple inclusion of bsd.files.mk, as comment says.
 >> NetBSD's /usr/share/mk/bsd.files.mk uses the same approach
 >> as in proposed patch.

> Oh, I think I see.  If I understand correctly, the comment about "This
> file can be included multiple times" is not intended to mean "we have to
> do something fancy to allow our caller to pass different lists of things
> to do each time they include this file"; it's simply intended to mean
> "we need to ensure that nothing happens the second time this file is
> included".  If that's the case, then something a lot like tht patch in
> PR 39715 would make sense.

Nobody objects for very long period of time.
Can you apply that patch?
If it breaks something, this will be detected very soon.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.


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