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Re: versioned files in DESTDIR breaking build



On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:20:37PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > > When we move to 4.99.68, you'll have an old 4.99.67 directory that
> > > will need cleaning.
> >
> > Exactly, so I'm suggesting that the build procedure should be changed so
> > this doesn't happen.  Presumably all these files are getting added to
> > the obsolete sets list so poinstall fix can remove them; perhaps that
> > should be run on destdir.
> 
> The old modules are not fixed up by postinstall, and they
> probably should not be either...

The tools infrastructure has logic to calculate whether the tools need
to be rebuilt or not, and (some of) that is based on __NetBSD_Version__,
so it should be possible to work out whether the modules are out of date.

Regards,
Al


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