Subject: re: SUBDIR_CHANGE (Was: SUBDIR_EXCLUDES)
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 08/14/2000 16:16:33
	OK... if anyone else is interested in working on this, _please_
	take a go. Otherwise it may be some time before we get this
	facility...

                David/absolute
			       -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --


On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Paul Goyette wrote:

> 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
> > 			       -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --
> > 
> > 
> > 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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