From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 13 6:50: 7 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 7A26237B588 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 06:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id GAA43441; Sat, 13 May 2000 06:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 06:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005131350.GAA43441@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Anatoly Vorobey Subject: Re: bin/18498: allowing ELF_VERBOSE in /etc/make.conf Reply-To: Anatoly Vorobey 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: Anatoly Vorobey To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: John Baldwin , 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/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message