From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 7 12:16: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85C41541F for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:15:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA76141 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:15:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi) Message-Id: <199906071915.PAA76141@misha.cisco.com> Subject: Re: bsd.lib.mk "@"'s In-Reply-To: from David Scheidt at "Jun 7, 1999 01:57:01 pm" To: current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:15:56 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com From: Mikhail Teterin X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL52 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Scheidt once 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? As one who has also tripped over this in the past, I'll second Chuck's vote. A call to ld fails more often then that to mv, but I often found myself going through the bsd.*.mk and removing the ``@''. Mostly so that I can see the exact ld-line, but not only... I remember, in the past, when people were wondering about The Right Ways to link on FreeBSD they were refered to the bsd.lib.mk. If the bsd.lib.mk was exposing the actual link commands a little better, this reference would have been easier to follow. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message