Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:27:03 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, Alex Kuster <vertex.symphony@gmail.com> Subject: Re: CLANG; still cc in use when building the WORLD with CLANG? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1v2%2B-jhbz=0mmU%2Bw4i%2BhWp53FhZ25V9YPdAr2pApGzQAQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E5D2854.1030305@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4E5CB1E9.9080801@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4E5D0DD3.20606@FreeBSD.org> <CABZ2EQM8oUoWd6c=2Arp8AZS1KfNCvZEJm40so%2BxTeyGg8a4Cg@mail.gmail.com> <4E5D24DE.8050909@FreeBSD.org> <4E5D2854.1030305@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Hartmann, O. <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 08/30/11 19:58, Dimitry Andric wrote: >> >> On 2011-08-30 18:44, Alex Kuster wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for pointing out those details ! >>> This whole thing about make.conf& src.conf is very confusing and gives >>> the >>> impression of something half ported ... >> >> The only thing that is "half ported" at the moment, is an easy "use >> clang to build world" switch. This will be properly addressed after 9.0 >> is released. As to the make.conf/src.conf confusion, it is very simple >> really: >> >> - make.conf is used for system-wide settings, applied to every build >> using make. >> >> - src.conf is used for setting FreeBSD source tree settings, which are >> always of the form WITH_XXX or WITHOUT_XXX. See src.conf(5) for a >> full list. Any other "make" settings, such as CC, CFLAGS, etc, are >> better specified in make.conf, though the manpage does not tell you >> so explicitly. > > This is as I understood the manpage of src.conf. There is only a YES/set and > NO/unset. No. There is only set and unset. WITH_option="NO" has the same effect as WITH_option="YES". I think this is confusing and often leads to unintended consequences, but I and also say that some of the WITH_options documented for src.conf (the man page is auto-generated from the code) are either non-functional or broken. I've had some interesting issues with unexpected interactions of WITH_options, as well. Be very careful! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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