On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:45:41AM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > I think we should add a target to make world that checks for the > existence of an old base install of Perl and removes it if it exists. > > As a general principle, if we do things like remove code during -current > development then make world needs to cater for that change. The idea of > make world is that what you get at the end of it is a pristine install > of a snapshot of FreeBSD from the current branch. > > The bootstrap target was originally added for this purpose, to deal with > issues during releases i.e. to bootstrap from one version of current to > another. It's got misunderstood along the way to mean bootstrapping > tools needed early in the build process. > > I'd like to resurrect it's original meaning and add code to clean out > old versions of Perl. > I strongly object to this unless we clearly define the procedure of deleting the old stuff like libraries, headers, programs, etc. I routinely do the cleanup by installing the world into a separate DESTDIR, and comparing it with what is available under /. I don't see a major problem with this except maybe a space. Another approarch is to compare the modification times with the current date; this works almost ok for all things except headers and (now) static libraries plus some miscellaneous stuff that is getting installed with -C.
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