On 9/23/2015 9:44 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrew...@freebsd.org > <mailto:bdrew...@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > On 8/21/15 8:15 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > > Author: imp > > Date: Fri Aug 21 15:15:22 2015 > > New Revision: 286995 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/286995 > > > > Log: > > Document bsd.progs.mk <http://bsd.progs.mk>, including its > status as being strongly > > discouraged and that it will be going away as soon as is > practicable. > > > > Modified: > > head/share/mk/bsd.README > > I find this functionality irreplaceable for simplicity. The alternative > is more Makefiles for simple extra progs. Granted it has meta mode > dirdeps issues but I think that is acceptable as there are other ways to > address that. > > Where is this deprecation coming from? Is it just due to bapt's > in-progress (but not working) patch at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3444 > to remove bsd.progs.mk <http://bsd.progs.mk> in place of PROGS in > bsd.prog.mk <http://bsd.prog.mk>? > > I would like to document PROGS properly. I had no idea how it worked > until reading over it tonight. If the plan wasn't to remove PROGS itself > I will do so. > > > It doesn't work and has lots of issues. Those issues haven't been fixed. > It didn't look like they would be fixed any time soon. It seemed there > was a consensus to deprecate it because of those issues. > bapt was part of that group, and his problems with packaging that > bsd.progs.mk <http://bsd.progs.mk> creates played into this decision. > > If the issues are fixed, then we can change our recommendations based > on the changed circumstance. > > Warner
Yes I think I've addressed the issues. I'm still testing and will have it committed soon. It is still fragile, but most of share/mk is. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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