Re: questionable feature in FreeBSD pmake

From: Harti Brandt (harti_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 10/29/04

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To: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org>

    On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Sean Farley wrote:

    SF>On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Dan Strick wrote:
    SF>
    SF>> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:23:02 -0700, Dan Strick wrote:
    SF>> >
    SF>> > I just spent a *very* frustrating hour trying to figure out why the
    SF>> > FreeBSD make program was invoking all commands to make things in a
    SF>> > subdirectory named "obj".
    SF>
    SF>I just noticed this is in the BUGS section of make:
    SF> The determination of .OBJDIR is contorted to the point of
    SF> absurdity.
    SF>
    SF>> It seems that I have no alternative but to rename my "obj" directory.
    SF>> Can someone suggest an alternative? Note that it is not possible for
    SF>> me to set an environment variable (i.e. MAKEOBJDIR) before running
    SF>> make or to add an option to the make command line. Any fix must be
    SF>> contained entirely within the makefile. Setting .OBJDIR or MAKEOBJDIR
    SF>> within the makefile does not work. Placing a "cd .." or "cd
    SF>> $(.CURDIR)" in front of every set of makefile shell commands is
    SF>> unthinkable.
    SF>
    SF>Why are you unable to do anything with the command-line? Any of these
    SF>will solve your problem.
    SF>Bourne:
    SF>MAKEOBJDIR=/no_obj_here make
    SF>
    SF>Bourne or CSH:
    SF>env MAKEOBJDIR=/no_obj_here make
    SF>
    SF>Here is a Makefile that does not use obj/. The special targets can be
    SF>placed into a file to be included into all your Makefiles. It only
    SF>suffers from a failed build where it will not rename obj to tmpobj.
    SF>
    SF>-----------------------
    SF>.BEGIN:
    SF> mv tmpobj obj || mkdir obj
    SF>
    SF>.INTERRUPT:
    SF> mv obj tmpobj

    .INTERRUPT is dangerous at the moment, because it is not called always and
    it's sometimes called in the wrong place. I have a fix for this.

    harti

    SF>
    SF>.END:
    SF> mv obj tmpobj
    SF>
    SF>all:
    SF> touch testing
    SF>
    SF>clean:
    SF> rm -f testing
    SF>-----------------------
    SF>
    SF>Sean
    SF>
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