Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:27:25 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Standardized make options (or no doesn't always mean no) Message-ID: <20020609072725.GA47864@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <3D02E881.2F3F57CB@mindspring.com> References: <20020608210159.B87326@espresso.q9media.com> <3D02AB11.F373AB4@FreeBSD.org> <3D02ACE0.9DAB0822@mindspring.com> <3D02B069.5863B2B9@FreeBSD.org> <3D02E881.2F3F57CB@mindspring.com>
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:32:49PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Hysterical raisins. BLAH=anythingatall has always meant, "BLAH is true," > > (or more properly, BLAH is defined) regardless of the value. Your way > > would make more sense, but that's a battle I'm not willing to fight. > > Since everyone appears to be in the mood to hack "Make" these days, it > might be worthwhile to add a "-U<name>" option, jut like "cc" has? I interpreted -U<name> as meaning the interface as preferred by user "name", before I reached "ju(s)t like "cc" has". Since the latter is only a comma away from the former, I think it's save to say that it's a genuine signal. I've yet to decode the signal, though :-) AFAICT, NOFOO has been the convention and it got polluted with NO_BAR. I'm of the impression that it came from the ports collection, was this the case? Also, I believe in earlier discussions NO_BLA was in favor by most of the people involved, but I can be wrong here (too). I can't even remember if I was part of that discussion and what my opinion was at that time, but this time it's that I prefer NOFOO. Maybe because I had to type NO_WERROR so often, but more likely because NOFOO fits the BSD paradigm so much better. In any way: the inconsistency is worse than either naming scheme. So I will see it as an improvement even if it's not my preferred naming... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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