On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Urban Boquist wrote:
> > > > But the patch below is not a nice and general solution, and it also
> > > > uses a temporary file, which I don't think is "allowed" in pkgsrc (or
> > > > is it)?
> > >
> > > I think it's ok, as long as the temp file is removed after the operation.
> > > BTW, there's also (i think) the "clean" target that does some caching...
> >
> > How about if the temp file goes into ${WRKDIR}? Then it will get
> > removed as a matter of course, and it won't need to be uniquely named,
> > either. Even better, the file can be an ordinary make target, which
> > can be listed as a dependency for a general ".DO_DEPENDS:" macro.
>
> so we'd pass down that WRKDIR to each child make?  I've been off and on
> thinking for quite some time about a good way to solve this problem once
> and for all.

Uh, no. You figure the depends once, before you do anything in the
DEPEND's directories, and then you do just the thing you need to do in
each DEPEND's directory (in reverse order). No need to recurse for
every target.

Frederick