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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2014 13:28:43 -0700
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make WITH[OUT]_* more useful?
Message-ID:  <20140402202843.37C8F58097@chaos.jnpr.net>
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:40:18 +0000, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" writes:
>I am a it worried that we are increasing the number of prefixes again rathe=
>r than reducing it.  I was hoping a while ago that NO_ would die.

NO_ is/was potentially useful.
It allows a makefile to say, "I cannot do that"

Of couse by allowing makefiles to set MK_* directly, they can just 
as easily do MK_*=no
Even then, until you eradicate NO_* it is necessary to handle it?




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