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diff --git a/mk/buildlink2/NOTES b/mk/buildlink2/NOTES deleted file mode 100644 index 915220ea896..00000000000 --- a/mk/buildlink2/NOTES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -$NetBSD: NOTES,v 1.14 2003/09/02 06:59:50 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-lib same as above, but uses libtool - x11/xearth tests imake wrapper - -Full caching can be tested be adding ${MACHINE_PLATFORM} to _BLNK_CACHE_ALL -and performing the tests above, but only building the packages is needed. - -Platform Working? Full caching? --------- -------- ------------- -FreeBSD 4.7 -IRIX 6.5 (jschauma) Yes! Yes! -Linux -Darwin 5.5 (schmonz) Yes! No -Darwin 6.2 (grant) Yes! Yes! -NetBSD 1.5.x (gendalia) -NetBSD 1.6 (jlam) Yes! Yes! -OpenBSD (cjep) -Solaris 7 -Solaris 8 (grant) Yes! Yes! -Solaris 9 (salo) Yes! Yes! |