Submitted by: jkh gclarkii paul satoshi freebsd-hackers
These are the FAQ files, reorganized a bit and updated marginally for 2.0.
There is *still more work to be done* in updating, so if some of your FAQ text
is below, please check it over! We've also got a lot of FAQ entries still
to write (examples: "how do I upgrade?" "what's new in 2.0?" "how do I
install on a notebook/second drive/from DOS/etc etc etc?"
1. DISTFILE is gone and replaced by DISTFILES, which can contain one or
more file specifications.
2. MASTER_SITE created, which points to the distfiles directory on
freebsd.cdrom.com (which I'll set up in a moment).
3. HOME_LOCATION is now simply a hint, and is never directly used except
to inform the user when ncftp unable to transfer a file from
MASTER_SITE.
4. ncftp is now assumed to live somewhere in the path, in preparation for
Andrew bringing it in on a more permanant basis.
5. XMKMF defined - it was not before.
Thanks to Andrew (ache) for many helpful suggestions.
date: 1993/11/15 07:15:16; author: rgrimes; state: Exp; lines: +1 -0
From Andrew Moore
Make /usr/share/dict/words a symbolic link to web2
[This is now NECESSARY for games/boggle as it uses /usr/share/dict/words
as an input file]
Reviewed by: rgrimes
Submitted by: From 1.x, alm
revision 1.6
date: 1993/10/19 19:57:35; author: rgrimes; state: Exp; lines: +2 -1
Pull in ../Makefile.inc so that the whatis database ends up in the correct
place. Rich Murphy has a better fix for this, but I lost it!
multiple targets when dealing with creating a set of distribution files
from scratch. Another problem is *verifying* that a given file fetched
from its HOME_LOCATION is the one we wanted (what if the stupid ftp site
maintainer updated it in place?). Rich Morin pointed this out and suggested
some solutions. I need to think about it some more (suggestions?).
For now, we have a seperate `fetch' and `extract' target.
Submitted by: jkh
Submitted by:
Delete the old style generation of the whatis database and replace it
with the call to makewhatis. Don't install the old makewhatis.sed script
under /usr/share/man any longer.
be easy to change to /usr/X11R6 if and when the time comes. This is
to deal with things like xditview which otherwise had hardcoded assumptions
about where X lived. Yuck.
Submitted by: jkh
remains, and that's that this does not work with multiple targets, which
sort of throws the tk and fvwm distributions into a mess. tk needs both
a tarball and a patch file from the same site, fvwm needs up to 3 different
files if you want all the options. If anyone wants to take this the last
few steps of the way towards somehow handling cases like this, I'd be very
happy.
Submitted by: jkh
${DISTDIR}/${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
With simply `${DISTFILE}' which defaults to the above. This lets you
easily name distribution files that don't cooperate with any rational
naming syntax.
Similarly, make a variable called ${PKGFILE} which fills the same purpose
for packages.
Just trying to make this thing really really general to suit every need.
Now I need somebody to figure out how to make the extract target auto-fetch
things from ${HOME_LOCATION} with ncftp *if* ncftp is installed and it
looks possible to reach the foreign site. That will take some fancy footwork,
but would be slick. I've changed this too so that HOME_LOCATION is no longer
set by default, allowing you to do an .if defined(..) check for it. The
extract rule now does this too.
Submitted by: jkh
Build an intermediate object file even when there is only one source
file. This costs a little space but saves time if the target is rebuilt
a lot, and it stops the target varying with the name of temporary
intermediates.
Use ${ECHO} instead of `echo' so that `make -s' is fairly quiet.
Use ${ECHODIR} instead of echo for printing directory names so that
`make -ss' is very quiet.
previous commit:
+ Everything is initialized using ?= instead of =.
+ Nicer formatting (more white space).
+ .c: rule.
Add macros ECHO and ECHODIR. Both are normally `echo', but when
the make flags include -s, ECHO is set to `true' and when the make
flags include two or more -s's ECHODIR is set to `true'. @${ECHO}
should be used instead of @echo in most cases. ${ECHODIR} is
intended to be used mainly for messages about directory names.
PRECIOUSLIB causes the shared library to be installed with the system
immutable flag (schg) set. (You can add other flags for shared-library
installation by modifying SHLINSTALLFLAGS.)
INTERNALLIB disables the generation of non-shared versions of the library.
This may be of use for programs like Taylor UUCP and GCC which have large
internal libraries shared among a number of programs.
