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

[ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov]

Paul -

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:12:50PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> 
> because our development machines run (you guessed it) RH9,

I hope for your sake that those machines are on an
isolated net.

I jumped ship from Red Hat 7.3 to Debian sarge.
Sarge was released on 2005-06-06.  It supplies make 3.80.
If you use a Linux distribution older than that, you
should realize that you are due for an upgrade.

> now, as i said, this is somewhat hypothetical -- we're in the
> process of bringing our build machines forward, we're actually
> mainly interested in the new busybox for newer products, and, in
> practice, a new version of make probably wouldn't break any of
> our old product anyway -- far less likely than a compiler change,
> say.  so if 3.80 becomes the new baseline, we'll deal.

As indeed you do.

> the point is simply that there's value in maintaining a certain
> amount of stability in the build tool requirements, and so far i
> think busybox has done a good job at striking that balance.  i'm
> sure ours isn't the only project that appreciates that.

I agree, and I'm glad busybox at least attempts to make that balance.

To maintain old machines, it's worth having stand-alone computers
running old versions of software available.  I hear some people
have good success using VMWare/UML/Bochs etc. for this purpose,
so they don't even need dedicated hardware -- just tons of disk
space.

    - Larry