From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 00:04:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917EA16A4C0 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C2143FB1 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:04:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (37.80-203-228.nextgentel.com [80.203.228.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803A678E82; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:04:45 +0200 (MEST) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 4EEA8998CD; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:04:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (dwp.des.no [10.0.0.4]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 67A8E998CB; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 44FECB84A; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:04:41 +0200 (CEST) To: Marcel Moolenaar References: <20030917065127.GB4261@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030917073900.GG39788@funkthat.com> <20030917080127.GB16024@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030917180421.GH39788@funkthat.com> <20030917184241.GA18166@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:04:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030917184241.GA18166@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> (Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:42:41 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=8.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make(1): adding sort modifiers X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:04:47 -0000 Marcel Moolenaar writes: > Correct. We should keep lists sorted. It's when we need to combine > multiple lists that we need a hand. Having multiple platforms and > a busload of NO_way options is making it hard to get the final list > sorted. If make(1) can give us a hand with that, then we can also > keep an eye on maintainability and readability of our makefiles. Yep, the module build is my favorite bogeyman in this respect. I can never tell how far along it is because I can never remember which module is in which sequence (I believe there are three separate sequences on i386, each of wich is sorted). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no