[PATCH] fix erroneous "builddir" reference in libbb/Makefile

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Sun May 14 20:26:28 UTC 2006


On Sun, 14 May 2006, Rich Felker wrote:

> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:23:43PM -0500, Jason Schoon wrote:
> > I completely agree with that.  If you want to build the latest
> > version of a package, but can't be bothered to upgrade your build
> > tools to something from 4 years ago, tough.  According to
> > freshmeat, make 3.79.1 was released 8 years ago, August of 1998.
> > Time to let it go.

> Would you like to find me a "modern" make with same or smaller size
> on disk? The problem with requiring recent versions of GNU packages
> is that the ones newer than 8-15 years old become exponentially
> bloated with each release... :(

perhaps i'm missing something -- why is the size of "make" an issue?

rday



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