Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 05:20:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/18498: allowing ELF_VERBOSE in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <200005131220.FAA59134@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/18498; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, mellon@pobox.com
Subject: Re: bin/18498: allowing ELF_VERBOSE in /etc/make.conf
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:14:24 +0200
-On [20000513 14:11], John Baldwin (jhb@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
>On 13-May-00 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>> -On [20000511 16:02], mellon@pobox.com (mellon@pobox.com) wrote:
[snip]
>> Why those two trailing newlines?
>
>They don't have to be in the final commit. :)
Of course, just trying to make sure what the originator's intent was. ;)
>> Anyways, John, what do you think of this change?
>>
>> I think it would make debugging easier for those who want it, however
>> the ELF_VERBOSE name is a tad bit generic to make it a make.conf
>> variable. I prefer it to be ELF_BOOT_VERBOSE or something like that.
>> Or ELF_BOOT_DEBUG.
>
>Probably BOOT_ELF_{DEBUG,VERBOSE} and with some tweaks we could
>make it so that all boot variables start with BOOT_, that way
>we can avoid nameclashes, and indicate that it is a variable
>that applies only to BOOT related stuff.
I agree, that makes more sense than my suggestions.
However, you can thus agree in principle with the patch [basically the
moving of the make variable to make.conf]?
Will you assign the pr to yourself and deal with it as you see fit? ;)
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