On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:29 +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:
> > Doesn't the old "config; cd; make dep all install" sequence
> > work?
>
> Traps for young players: No this (sometimes) doesn't work.
> You need to do "make depend && make all", so that the second
> invocation of make picks up the new dependencies calculated by
> "make depend". [ ... ] This is one area where gmake differs
> from BSD make - gmake will reread any makefiles that are
> changed during the make run, so the "make depend all" trick
> would work for projects built with gmake.
The above sequence was meant more as a sketch than as an
instruction. :) Otherwise the config(8) misses its argument as
well as cd(1)ing $HOME won't suffice ... I'm sure there are
plenty of instructions in UPDATING as in the mail lists archives
(these threads come up *very* regularly, I've seen several dozens
of them in the short time following -stable).
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