Re: destdir: 'make package' inconsistency

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:36:45PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
 > > make clean . package
 > > make -j5 clean . all . install
 > 
 > The latter two still wouldn't work, since the internal steps would be as
 > follows:
 > 
 > 1. load all the *.mk files
 > 2. run the actions for "clean"
 > 3. run the actions for "package"
 > 
 > Step 1 sets lots of variables depending on the existence of certain
 > files in WRKDIR. These files will be deleted in step 2. And then, step 3
 > assumes they are still there, but they aren't.

Isn't a lot of that work done in a recursive sub-make for each step?
Or is that no longer true? (Or was it never true and I'm thinking of
something else?)

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David A. Holland
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