Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:15:25 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: attila@hun.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT Message-ID: <199906202315.JAA03124@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT > >options ROOTDEVNAME=\"da0s2e\" > > must be specified as: > >options ROOTDEVNAME="da0s2e" > > else 'make depend' loses the string. w/o quotes it's just an > undefined. parser change to eliminate quote requirements > for config file defines obviated need for hard quotes in > ROOTDEVNAME>. "config" does not grok the errors. No. At least in -current, the former works, but latter gives no quotes in opt_rootdevname.h and thus a syntax error in autoconf.c. > am one of those who suffers from lack of politically correct > attitude -- I dont do M$lop (refuse to), so why should I > worry about slices? never need slices before M$lop.... however, > that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large > partitions take performance hits. > > alternative is to change MAXPARTITIONS? to 16? One reason is that the slice data format is better. It doesn't have arbitrary limits like 8 or 16 (it's essentially a linked list). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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