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!

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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