Install docs oddity
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 4 01:52:15 UTC 2006
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:52:38 -0800
"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah at freebsd.org> wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:40:15PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> >> I'm glad someone else besides me has seen this.
> >>
> >> I noticed this on my 1GHz P-III. :-p
> >
> > My machine was a PII-233 at the time, so the effects were even more
> > obvious. :-)
> >
> >> Did you take a look at my patch? I don't get rid of the loop in
> >> doc.subdir.mk, but I make it not get get invoked by the install target.
> >> I think this should leave package building unaffected but I confess to
> >> not having tested this.
> >
> > Yes, I did look at it and it seems to be good. The package building
> > needs to be tested however, so perhaps I will take a crack at it
> > tomorrow (I have a much faster machine now, whoooho! :-) but I have
> > never built the packages before so I will need to figure out how to do
> > it.
>
> I kind-of tested package building with the built-up doc tree I had
> ("make package" and "make package FORMATS=pdf"). It seemed to behave
> correctly but I don't have a lot of familiarity with the doc packages.
>
> I look forward to hearing your testing results.
>
> Thanks!
And please test the double definition issue if you can. Thanks!
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Tom Rhodes
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