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diff --git a/mk/buildlink2/NOTES b/mk/buildlink2/NOTES new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..06112108b44 --- /dev/null +++ b/mk/buildlink2/NOTES @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +$NetBSD: NOTES,v 1.1 2002/12/22 19:02:43 jlam Exp $ + + Caching + ======= + +The caching problems seem to be related to correct manipulation of +variables containing values with escaped metacharacters by the shell. The +current code only does partial caching, which doesn't cache "special" +arguments that contain escaped metacharacters or other oddly quoted values. +On certain platforms listed in _BLNK_CACHE_ALL in bsd.buildlink2.mk, we do +full caching, which has enormous speed benefits since it avoids an extra +sed invocation per "special" argument. + +The test process for buildlink2 consists of building and installing: + + shells/tcsh tests handling of specially-quoted arguments + devel/gettext same as above, but uses libtool + +Full caching can be tested be adding ${OPSYS} to _BLNK_CACHE_ALL and +performing the tests above. + +Known working platforms: + + MacOS X 10.1.5 (schmonz) + MacOS X 10.2 (grant) + NetBSD 1.6 [full caching] (jlam) + OpenBSD (cjep) + Solaris 8 (grant) + Solaris 9 (salo) + +Unknown status: + + IRIX + NetBSD 1.5.x + Solaris 7 + Linux |