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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:03:17 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.README
Message-ID:  <p0623092ac0363891c64c@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20060309090307.GK54826@ip.net.ua>
References:  <200603090133.k291XcfB005631@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060309090307.GK54826@ip.net.ua>

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At 11:03 AM +0200 3/9/06, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>
>I can only suggest to make it spell "NO_MAN=", i.e.,
>without any value.
>
>Was there some discussion that I've missed?

In the thread on:
     cvs commit: src/tools/regression/lib/libc/resolv Makefile

des made the comment:

   "> > > No, the correct spelling is
    > > > MAN=

    >  Since when? ...

    Since we abandoned MAN[1-9].  The fact that many old Makefiles
    still use NO_MAN doesn't make it right; NO_MAN is a user knob,
    not a Makefile knob (same distinction as between WITH_FOO and
    USE_FOO in the ports tree)
   "

This is one of those issues that I have no personal opinion on,
other than I wanted lpr's makefiles to be "correct", for whatever
the consensus is for what "correct" means.  I probably should
have waited for more discussion in that thread before making this
change, but I just happened to be looking over some code in 'lpr'
when I read the above comment, so I thought "I might as well fix
this as long as I'm right here...".

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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