Re: Bootstrap failure: objdir=srcdir, FreeBSD make

[Will Andrews <will at physics dot purdue dot edu>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:12:37PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> You're right - normally packages are supposed to keep upstream and
> Debian patches separate. I inherited the package last May, and it's
> been through several maintainers in its time as a Debian package. 
> 
> In the case of pmake, it's nigh-on impossible to work out which bits
> came from where, so I guess we've forked it for now. I've tried
> looking through the FreeBSD and NetBSD sites for guidance on who to
> talk to about a couple of the changes we've made and some further
> patches that would be nice, but I must admit I've forgotten about it
> for quite a while. 
> 
> Will, I guess you're the closest thing I'm likely to find to an
> upstream maintainer - shall I send you patches?

Sure.  However, I'd like to note that I am working with Marc Espie
<espie@OpenBSD.org> on a developmental make(1) (he has done all the
work so far) that is available on cvs.openpackages.org (see
www.openpackages.org for info).  So what this means is that I am not
interested in folding changes into FreeBSD's make because I am going to
import the make from OpenPackages as soon as it matures a bit more.

I *will*, however, be happy to review and commit simple patches that fix
bugs and/or make make(1) more functional without too much extra code
and/or make make(1) more POSIX-compliant.  So, send them here!  I am
actually planning on fixing numerous bugs in FBSD make(1) this weekend.
The more, the merrier!  :)

BTW, the make(1) on OP is strictly experimental.. please don't bother
packaging it or anything (yet).  Take a peek if you're really
interested though.  :)

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wca