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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