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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 18:33:29 -0700
From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Standardized make options (or no doesn't always mean no)
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Terry Lambert wrote:

> How about "FOO=false" and "FOO=true" and "NO_FOO: undefined variable"?

Hysterical raisins. BLAH=anythingatall has always meant, "BLAH is true,"
(or more properly, BLAH is defined) regardless of the value. Your way
would make more sense, but that's a battle I'm not willing to fight. 

Doug

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