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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:44:17 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make reinstall
Message-ID:  <19980223164417.51626@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980223101435.16069B-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>; from Robert Watson on Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:18:17AM -0500
References:  <199802230648.IAA09454@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980223101435.16069B-100000@trojanhorse.pr.watson.org>

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On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 10:18:17AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> As I have a number of machines to sync, and we regularly install and
> decomission machines here, it seems like one possible addition to the
> global makefile might be something which spits out the following in an
> installworld or reinstall:
> 
> Warning: Built with -DNOPROFILE but not set; using it anyway.
> Warning: Built with -DNOGAMES but not set; using it anyway.
> Warning: Built with -DMAKE_KERBEROS4 but not set; using it anyway.
> 
> Possibly followed by sleep(1) to give the user a second to see this.  This
> would require state retained following a build to indicate how the build
> was managed.  Given that I build -stable and -current on one machine, and
> then install to others, it would be helpful; a lot easier for debugging
> problems like that for new users also, I would guess.

Sounds like a good idea.  Where are your patches to implement this?

Eivind, just running his patches to let 'make buildworld' work for a
non-root user through another 'make buildworld' to test them :-)

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