[2678] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: pending/382: KRB5-1.0 - extraneous file - src/Makefile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Mar 1 09:02:38 1997
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 08:52:59 -0500
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, Tom Perrine <tep@SDSC.EDU>, krb5-prs@RT-11.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[2675] in Kerberos-V5-bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Ted,
} The reason for the extraneous Makefile, if you take a look at
} it, is for people who try to blindly type "make".
This is silly. It's gratuitously inconsistent with the "standard" way
configure works.
If users cannot be bothered to look at the README if they habitually
type "make" when building a package, I do not think there is much to
be done for them.
That said, it seems poor that the Makefile points users at
doc/HOW-TO-BUILD, however src/README points users at
doc/{install.ps,krb5-install.info}. Particularly when
doc/HOW-TO-BUILD does not exist.
} We probably should document that if you're using lndir that you should
} remove the Makefile file first, though
Certainly you should, but I submit it is still broken...
It looks like krb5's practice of having a top-level Makefile dates back
to when there was a top-level Imakefile, and I think that then it made
sense, but right now it's more of a hindrance than a helper.
--jhawk
