From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 5:35:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from columbus.cris.net (columbus.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C7537B42C; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 05:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ark.cris.net (ark.cris.net [212.110.128.68]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03675; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:35:15 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by ark.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA02124; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:35:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from phantom) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:35:00 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: John Baldwin Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: aout-to-elf (was: Re: NO vs NO_) Message-ID: <20000830153500.B1040@ark.cris.net> References: <20000830125403.A76840@ark.cris.net> <200008301026.DAA50313@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200008301026.DAA50313@pike.osd.bsdi.com>; from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:26:50AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:26:50AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > [ moved to -arch, the home of all bikeshed arguments ] BTW, one more question related to architecture design of our buildworld system. Is there any reason to keep aout-to-elf upgrade chunks there for 4.x and 5.x systems ? Maybe it's time to cleanup Makefiles for HEAD and RELENG_4 ? > Alexey Zelkin wrote: > > hi, > > > > looks like it's time to rehash "NO vs NO_" theme. Any objections > > against changing all occurences of "NO_*" variables in src/'s Makefiles > > to "NO*" ? Since "NO*" variables is mostly used in tree I think we should > > go in this way to avoid lots "empty" patches. > > The reason many of us have been adding NO_* instead of NO* is to improve > readability. As someone else has pointed out, the NO_'s outnumber NO in > make.conf anyways, so if you are going to make a change, go to NO_*. > > There is also a precedent for using _'s in make variables in other > variable names as well: > > MAKE_KERBEROS4 > MAKE_KERBEROS5 > MACHINE_ARCH > USA_RESIDENT > MODULES_WITH_WORLD > MAKE_IDEA > etc. etc. > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ -- /* Alexey Zelkin && phantom@cris.net */ /* Tavric National University && phantom@FreeBSD.org */ /* Sysadmin/Developer && phantom@sms.umc.com.ua */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message