From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 15 01:21:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA20104 for current-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 01:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA20083 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 01:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA15543 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:20:57 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA14328 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:20:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA11461 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:08:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604150808.KAA11461@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Panic during boot To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:08:38 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604150332.UAA04584@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Apr 14, 96 08:32:58 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > The whole reason why > Jordan made the change to config to blow away the compile directory was > because we kept getting weird bug reports that later turned out to be caused > by a stale .o's. I thought it was rather due to the poor traditional option handling? For me, this is quite a difference. If it's only been for the option handling, -n could go away again once all major (i.e., supported) options have been turned into `new style', since the dependencies on opt_foo.h will work again. People who are using unsupported options, or people who upgrade their machines frequently to newer sources are expected to know what they're doing. We should only protect ``ordinary customers'' against (from their point of view) unforseeable accidents. (I always prevent config from clobbering my compile directory, however, i remove it manually if i think too many things have changed, or if something doesn't work as expected and i cannot figure it out.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)