Doc BoF at EuroBSDCon

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2004.11.29 10:55:46 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:03:20AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > > - Redoing the build system (make files), because it clearly shows its
> > >   age and several things are broken, e.g. OBJDIR.
> > 
> > Makes sense.  I'd be happier seeing a comprehensive list of the things
> > that are broken though, so we can measure the replacement and make sure
> > it solves the problems.
> 
> Yes, a few of the recent additions (like mirrors.xml) broke parts of
> the build, and it might be better to just fix those broken commits of
> the past few years rather than starting from scratch.

OBJDIR was broken way before mirrors.xml.  Also, I'm not really
talking about starting on a clean slate.  Of course parts of the the
current buildsystem is just fine, but others are just a mess.

Also, a thing that really bugs me with the current doc buildsystem is
it's misuse of variables that has a specific meaning in src/ (like
DESTDIR).  I really like to remove that mess.

> I think the general bsdmake infrastructure of the doc project is a
> strong advantage of this doc project over others.  I'm aware of few
> others that allow one to build html/postscript/pdf/text versions of
> the complete doc set as easily as we can.

Indeed, and it has never been my intention to remove that, or remove
any fundamental functionality.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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