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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:36:51 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ben Kelly <ben@wanderview.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WITHOUT_MODULES, does it actually work?
Message-ID:  <4B036BD3.4020900@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <BB106D32-DF64-4086-801F-286050314200@wanderview.com>
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Ben Kelly wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> Ben Kelly wrote:
>>> It seems there are some left over bits then.  I have this in /usr/src/sys/modules/Makefile:
>>>
>>> .for reject in ${WITHOUT_MODULES}
>>> SUBDIR:= ${SUBDIR:N${reject}}
>>> .endfor
>> Well it seems my search was not exhaustive.
>>
>> My recommendation then would be to file a src PR so that someone can
>> look into it. :)
> 
> I've opened a doc PR for the bad example in the handbook and a conf PR for the patch to make WITHOUT_MODULES work from the kernel config file using makeoptions.  I haven't gotten PR numbers back from the system yet.

You can add to the mix the fact that options like modules_override and
without_modules are documented in make.conf(5) instead of in
src.conf(5) which is where (arguably) they should be.


Doug

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