From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7540 invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2010 14:46:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 7529 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Oct 2010 14:46:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:45:58 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC492BAC3D; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id RU7UnCygwAzv; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184CC2BAC08; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A8EF2F591E; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:45:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:46:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans , Jie Zhang Subject: Re: Fix Makefile.in in data-directory Message-ID: <20101021144556.GA2797@adacore.com> References: <4CBEDBF5.9060504@codesourcery.com> <4CBFA227.8050501@codesourcery.com> <201010211107.42726.pedro@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201010211107.42726.pedro@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00334.txt.bz2 > ># Traditionally "install" depends on "all". But it may be useful > ># not to; for example, if the user has made some trivial change to a > ># source file and doesn't care about rebuilding or just wants to save the > ># time it takes for make to check that all is up to date. > ># install-only is intended to address that need. > >install: all install-only > > (enphasis on the comment.) Maybe it's the 'Traditionally "install" depends > on "all".' part that's not so traditional afterall? I really don't know. > > (most users are better taught separate "make" and "make install" steps, > because it's most often necessary to need extra previleges > and "sudo make install" to install to /usr/local, but not to "make".) AFAIK, the FSF recommends against making "make install" also do the build. -- Joel