From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jun 9 0:27:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C11A37B400; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g597RNJ03359; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:27:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g597RQAi048008; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:27:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g597RQxS048007; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:27:25 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Terry Lambert Cc: Doug Barton , Mike Barcroft , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardized make options (or no doesn't always mean no) Message-ID: <20020609072725.GA47864@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20020608210159.B87326@espresso.q9media.com> <3D02AB11.F373AB4@FreeBSD.org> <3D02ACE0.9DAB0822@mindspring.com> <3D02B069.5863B2B9@FreeBSD.org> <3D02E881.2F3F57CB@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D02E881.2F3F57CB@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:32:49PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Hysterical raisins. BLAH=anythingatall has always meant, "BLAH is true," > > (or more properly, BLAH is defined) regardless of the value. Your way > > would make more sense, but that's a battle I'm not willing to fight. > > Since everyone appears to be in the mood to hack "Make" these days, it > might be worthwhile to add a "-U" option, jut like "cc" has? I interpreted -U as meaning the interface as preferred by user "name", before I reached "ju(s)t like "cc" has". Since the latter is only a comma away from the former, I think it's save to say that it's a genuine signal. I've yet to decode the signal, though :-) AFAICT, NOFOO has been the convention and it got polluted with NO_BAR. I'm of the impression that it came from the ports collection, was this the case? Also, I believe in earlier discussions NO_BLA was in favor by most of the people involved, but I can be wrong here (too). I can't even remember if I was part of that discussion and what my opinion was at that time, but this time it's that I prefer NOFOO. Maybe because I had to type NO_WERROR so often, but more likely because NOFOO fits the BSD paradigm so much better. In any way: the inconsistency is worse than either naming scheme. So I will see it as an improvement even if it's not my preferred naming... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message