Subject: Re: bmake link errors running bootstrap-pkgsrc bootstrap twice
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
From: Mark Valentine <mark@valentine.me.uk>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/06/2003 22:31:43
> From: Mark Valentine <mark@valentine.me.uk>
> Date: Mon 6 Oct, 2003
> Subject: Re: bmake link errors running bootstrap-pkgsrc bootstrap twice

[Apologies for self-followup.]

> > FWIW the boot-strap script which comes with recent bmake versions does
> > ${MAKE:-make} -f makefile.boot clean
> > before doing anything else.  To cover this case.
> 
> For this situation that would work only due to the fact that makefile.boot
> removes more *.o files than it's really responsible for.  If it was "fixed"
> only to clean up after itself, then the lst*.o files created by running
> bmake -f Makefile would remain.

Well, actually it if were fixed in that way then it would presumably also be
fixed only to link in named .o files, so the bogus lst*.o files wouldn't cause
a problem...

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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