From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 13 5:20:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5C637BDF5 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 05:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id FAA59134; Sat, 13 May 2000 05:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 05:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005131220.FAA59134@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: bin/18498: allowing ELF_VERBOSE in /etc/make.conf Reply-To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/18498; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: John Baldwin 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? ;) -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project I know you have tried, to feel... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message