In article <26371.1260567...@splode.eterna.com.au>,
matthew green <m...@eterna.com.au> wrote:
>
> Module Name: src
> Committed By: uebayasi
> Date: Fri Dec 11 08:37:34 UTC 2009
>
> Modified Files:
> src/share/mk: bsd.own.mk
>
> Log Message:
> ${GENCMD} is used to generate only one output from file generation
commands
> which potentially have multiple output files, which confuses make(1).
>
> This wrapper copies all involved files into /tmp, execute the command,
and
> copy the wanted file back to ${.OBJDIR}. If this is expensive, consider
to
> rewrite the generation command to output files individually.
>
>
>this seems pretty gross. i'm not sure it's a good way to
>solve the problem at hand. it hides everything away with
>@. it also doesn't appear to avoid updating a file if it
>hasn't actually changed. it also hard codes /tmp, which
>it shouldn't need to use at all. it also uses "cp"
>instead of "mv".
>
>did anyone review this?
I think this should be backed out; there must be better ways of dealing
with the problem.
i agree. the problem at hand is not new and there are much better
workarounds than this..
.mrg.
