From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jun 8 22:33:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D471E37B411; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 22:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0193.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.193] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17GvKR-0006c7-00; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 22:33:27 -0700 Message-ID: <3D02E881.2F3F57CB@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 22:32:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Mike Barcroft , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Standardized make options (or no doesn't always mean no) References: <20020608210159.B87326@espresso.q9media.com> <3D02AB11.F373AB4@FreeBSD.org> <3D02ACE0.9DAB0822@mindspring.com> <3D02B069.5863B2B9@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > 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. Since everyone appears to be in the mood to hack "Make" these days, it might be worthwhile to add a "-U" option, jut like "cc" has? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message