[OpenAFS-devel] Anyone actually use any of the special build targets?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:

> i.e. blib_afs, blib_uafs, finale, etc.
> 
> or do y'all pretty much always just type make in the top level directory?
> 
> The reason I ask is I'm trying to get the Makefiles to where they function
> more usably like a typical source project. Getting everything built with
> autoconf was the first part of that.
> 
> If no one actually cares about those special build rules or some of the
> other weirdnesses, it should make it easier to simplify down the Makefiles,
> and get normal "make all" "make install" type targets to work. (With the
> exception of the kernel libafs dir, which will probably stay weird for a
> while.)

I know there are people who built AFS (IBM AFS) piecemeal to get bits they
needed; I don't know if those people still have reasons to not do complete
OpenAFS builds, and if they do:

> At the very least, I want to get things to where you can reasonably type
> "make" all by itself, in any directory in src, and have it do something
> useful. 

if this wouldn't satisfy them.

-D