From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 07:31:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F1737B401 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [193.197.184.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906EB43F75 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 07:31:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with gbsmtp id 19iESH-0007aL-03; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:30:57 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h6VDdxlD035535 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:39:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6VDdxHO035534 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:39:59 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:39:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20030730212049.GI33188@sunbay.com> <20030730162320.A66578@FreeBSD.org> <20030730212744.GJ33188@sunbay.com> <20030730163705.A68092@FreeBSD.org> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -U X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:31:39 -0000 Juli Mallett wrote: > Why go thru those contortions? I sometimes use "make FOO=" to define > things. -U obviously has a place, if it not existing means I have to > have all these contortions to do a fairly obvious thing, yeah? What are the exact semantics of -U supposed to be? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de