Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:33:07 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: RE: "buildig release" knob in make world/release Message-ID: <200004121433.KAA32551@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <35762.955547013@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 12-Apr-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > The recent discussion about making malloc(3) more picky and adding > INVARIANTS to kernels during the current cycle came out in favour > of the general principle of making CURRENT more picky about mistakes. > > This begs the question if we should add a top-level knob which sets > the entire build, world, release, kernels and modules in one of two > modes: > CURRENT - enable extra checks. > RELEASE - disable extra checks How about using DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION instead? I think they more clearly convey the meanings of the settings. > or if we should enable each of these extra checkes individually ? I like one big tweakable knob personally. However, what you could do is have a DEVELOPMENT toggle much like NO_PORTS, etc. in make.conf. You could then teach make.conf to set default values of many variables based on the bigger main knob. > If we agree on one big handle, what should the name be ? Umm, SYSTEM_FOCUS perhaps? I assume this would go in /etc/defaults/make.conf? Is there any possiblity of possibly creating an /etc/build.conf instead and cleaning out a lot of the crud in make.conf that has nothing at all to do with configuring make? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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