Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 10:05:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r553975 - head/Mk Message-ID: <202011031005.0A3A5b5e070662@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: 0mp Date: Tue Nov 3 10:05:37 2020 New Revision: 553975 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/553975 Log: Discourage users from using DO_NADA It should not be used to make targets do nothing. In such cases, it's most likely the ports infrastructure which requires fixing. Suggested by: bapt Approved by: portmgr (bapt) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27072 Modified: head/Mk/bsd.port.mk Modified: head/Mk/bsd.port.mk ============================================================================== --- head/Mk/bsd.port.mk Tue Nov 3 09:27:49 2020 (r553974) +++ head/Mk/bsd.port.mk Tue Nov 3 10:05:37 2020 (r553975) @@ -2040,6 +2040,10 @@ STAGE_COOKIE?= ${WRKDIR}/.stage_done.${PORTNAME}.${PR # How to do nothing. Override if you, for some strange reason, would rather # do something. +# In general, however, DO_NADA is a relict of the past in the ports +# infrastructure, and most of its usage has been removed. If you need to define +# a target with DO_NADA, then there is a high chance that the ports +# infrastructure should be fixed instead. DO_NADA?= ${TRUE} # Use this as the first operand to always build dependency.
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