Subject: re: SUBDIR_CHANGE (Was: SUBDIR_EXCLUDES)
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: tech-misc
Date: 08/14/2000 08:05:17
I'd love to, but if you wait for me you'll probably have a very
long wait.  Make is one of those things that I haven't really
figured out very well.  (I actually better at writing sendmail
rules than I am at makefile rules!)

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Well... are you interesting in having a go at writing the make
> 	makgic? :)
> 
>                 David/absolute
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> 
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm.  Sounds useful.  But wouldn't it be more useful if we could set it
> > to a list of _paths_ rather than just a single directory?  There's at
> > least a couple of places in the source tree where there are common names
> > lib/libc and regress/libc come to mind immediately.  It might be nice to
> > be able to SUBDIR_EXCLUDE regress/libc ...
> > 
> > Just a thought.
> > 
> > On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, matthew green wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >    	This sounds... interesting. Certainly I would be happy to see
> > >    	it in the tree. Would anyone have any objections?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > i much prefer the concept of "SUBDIR_EXLUCDE"; i can set that on
> > > the make command line and that makes it 100x more useful.
> > > 
> > 
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