Thus spake Alan Barrett ("AB> ") sometime Today...

AB> From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
AB> To: NetBSD current list <current-users@NetBSD.org>
AB> Subject: Re: checkflist error codes
AB> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:54:06 +0200
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AB> On Wed, 05 Nov 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:
AB> > The most annoying problem with checkflist is that it aborts the build.sh
AB> > process when there are extra files in the destdir.  Is there any reason
AB> > why?
AB>
AB> I imagine it's so that developers will (eventually) notice the
AB> problem and fix it.
AB>
AB> As a user, I just modify my copy of checkflist to treat certain types of
AB> inconsistencies as non-fatal.

[Not specifically to Alan!]

This still does not address the fact that the flist is static and not
conditional as to what you build for a distribution.  That needs
desperately to be addressed.  I'm unfortunately up to my ass in alligators
at the moment, so I have not the time but I have the motivation,
believe me.

Example:  I want to build a distribution with no /lib, /libexec or
/rescue, and a statically-linked root. Or I might want to build a pure
static distribution.  Or I might want to build a distribution that uses
compressed manual pages.  Or I might want to build a distribution which
will install nicely onto an embedded installation.

But checkflist bites my knee when I do that.  I find myself adding '-V
MAKEFLAGS=-i' to the build process, something which, as even a
lightweight-by-comparison developer/programmer, I *really* don't like
doing.

				--*greywolf;
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