From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 3 17:24:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BE616A4CE; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:24:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B1D43D5A; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:23:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j03HQeMi009635; Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:26:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41D97F51.8080907@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:22:25 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: njl@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules/aic7xxx/aicasm Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:24:00 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > >>In message: <200501030536.j035atQo072140@repoman.freebsd.org> >> Nate Lawson writes: >>: NO_MAN is now NOMAN. >> >>Please back this out. You are going backwards. You need to use >>buildkernel or install a new world or setenv NO_MAN. > > > However, some change of this sort would be very useful -- the NO_MAN issue > is the only one of two issues preventing 6.x kernels from building on an > un-customized 5.x world. The other issue is changes in config(8), but > that's a lot more easily worked around as it doesn't require changes to > the global makefiles to fix. As someone who runs their build and remote > management boxes on RELENG_5, but remote test boxes on HEAD, I'd find it > very useful if we could find some solution to this. The one I've had in > mind is teaching the 5.x .mk files to also know about NO_MAN -- that way > at least newer RELENG_5 could build 6.x components without a full > buildworld. > > Robert N M Watson > > Compatibility should be put into a common and documented place like bsd.compat.mk. Putting special variables into each Makefile is both cumbersome and undocumented; it turns into folklore that no one understands years down the line. Scott