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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:17:49 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: make -n -n
Message-ID:  <561F36FD.2080606@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <561F3406.9050906@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <561F3406.9050906@FreeBSD.org>

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On 10/14/15 10:05 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> Does anyone consider 'make -n -n' a thing for top-level builds?
> 
...
> 
> So having said all of that, the ${_+_} never expands anymore since
> r251748 (June 2013). The act of it working in top-level has only been
> fixed since r288391 (September 2015).

r251750 (June 2013) also makes it so buildworld -n causes a real rm -rf
to be executed, so I'm guessing no one even uses this since it has not
been fixed yet.

> 
> Given it was broken for this long period I assume no one uses '-n -n' or
> even knew about it.
> 
> I would like to remove it (-n -n and _+_) and just use the (bmake)
> documented -n and -N flags and use '+' everywhere appropriate. Note that
> we use .MAKE in some targets that achieves largely the same thing, but
> many sub-make calls don't have a .MAKE and lack a proper '+' to recurse
> in Makefile.inc1.
> 


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery



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