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Date:      Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:51:32 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        mike@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Barcroft)
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Standardized make options (or no doesn't always mean no)
Message-ID:  <200206090751.g597pWA90153@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20020608210159.B87326@espresso.q9media.com> from Mike Barcroft at "Jun 8, 2002 09:01:59 pm"

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> 
> Is anyone planning to do something about the hugely confusing state of
> NO/NO_ options?  I can never remember which options have an underscore
> after the NO, so I end up writing commands like
> `make kernel ... NO_KERNELCLEAN=true NOKERNELCLEAN=true'.  It would
> very nice if we could standardize this and add some compatibility
> shims for historical spellings.

There were standards a long time ago, but just like some people like to
ignore style(9), this was also ignored and we end up confused. :-( My
vote would be for NOFOO (because that was the standard), but that is
just my vote. And yes I think it is a good idea that we should have it
standarized, but then I also think our code should conform to style(9).
:-)

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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