From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 12:06:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17037 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 12:06:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles195.castles.com [208.214.165.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17001; Sat, 30 May 1998 12:06:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06594; Sat, 30 May 1998 11:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805301801.LAA06594@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Peter Wemm cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: elf vs. bsd.*.mk In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 May 1998 02:10:42 +0800." <199805301810.CAA24860@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:01:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On one hand, the one-line change is simpler, but I think the reshuffle is > more "right", although it has very little effect on how the bmakefiles see > the world. It's more of a cleanliness win on non-BSD makefiles. I think the executive summary, plus your state of near-completion on the "more right" approach makes the course fairly self-evident from the point of view of expedience. Looking at the code and trying to follow your commentary, I realise that I don't know enough about the details to be able to decide on technical merits, so I'll leave that to people with opinions. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message