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Date:      Sun, 27 Mar 2016 18:26:52 +0200
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To:        "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
Cc:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r296637 - in head: contrib/bmake contrib/bmake/mk contrib/bmake/unit-tests share/mk usr.bin/bmake
Message-ID:  <20160327162652.GB87149@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15542.1457911750@kaos.jnpr.net>
References:  <201603110135.u2B1Zd8a001604@repo.freebsd.org> <56E5C2EB.1070206@FreeBSD.org> <14946.1457908340@kaos.jnpr.net> <56E5F36E.2020205@FreeBSD.org> <15542.1457911750@kaos.jnpr.net>

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On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 04:29:10PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > This code is only in head. My problem is now bmake can only build
> > commits after this one which breaks bisecting and older project branches
> > which haven't or can't merge in head yet.

> > Is the :@ iterator variable deletion change in bmake change necessary?

> In the sense of good hygiene, yes.
> Obviously make will work without it since its been that way for 15
> years, but this AFAIK is the only makefile affected.

I think the ability to bisect without weird local hacks is valuable,
although I rarely do this in a FreeBSD context.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker



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