From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 7 12: 5: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D479156B9 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08095; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:04:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:04:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.lib.mk "@"'s In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Why are many of the build lines in bsd.lib.mk hidden with leading @'s, > > so that they don't display in the build? This is useless, it hides > > things that go wrong, and hardly belongs here, it seems to me. > > > > How often do your calls to ld, mv and rm fail? That's not the point, the point is that current is a bleeding edge thing, not production, and the details should not be hidden, there's no possible justification for that. Besides, calls to ld *do* fail, in the build, except the way it is now, it's harder to figure out. > > David > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message