Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 06:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/18498: allowing ELF_VERBOSE in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <200005131350.GAA43441@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/18498; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/18498: allowing ELF_VERBOSE in /etc/make.conf
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 16:49:50 +0300
You, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai, were spotted writing this on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:14:24PM +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. ;)
They were a part of the evil plan to bloat FreeBSD CVS repository
out of all rational bounds by overwhelming it with carefully placed
newlines. But now that this attempt has been foiled, I shall have
to find some new ways of doing that ;)
> >> 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.
Great idea. Then if you do this with ELF_VERBOSE, please take care
to treat BTXLDR_VERBOSE similarly, it's in sys/boot/i386/btx/btxldr/Makefile .
--
Anatoly Vorobey,
mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
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