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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:11:42 -0800
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org>, brooks@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Makefile.inc1.patch
Message-ID:  <20140123221142.814FC5807E@chaos.jnpr.net>
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>> For options.mk I allow MK_* to already be set and WITHOUT_* to take
>> precedence over WITH_*.  I also allow makefiles to have their own =
>lists
>> of options - separate the policy from the mechanism.
>
>Would that fix this case though?

I imagine it would make fixing it easier.

>> I guess you could even allow a per-knob setting as to which takes
>> precedence.=20
>
>You mean override the default so WITH_* overrides WITHOUT_*?

Yes - I expect that would be rare, but worth it for completness.
The important thing is a simple precidence rule.

>> By simply allowing WITHOUT_* to overrule WITH_*, the Makefile.inc1 =
>usage
>> would be greatly simplified.
>
>Maybe=85 the -DNO_* logic is a bit messy=85

NO_* always wins, it allows a makefile to say "I don't care what you
want I cannot do that".

Most places you see -DNO_* used could be -DWITHOUT_* if the semantics
were not broken as previously described.
NO_* should be mainly for makefiles to set - like NO_MAN= (i don't got
no man page man)

>Curious to see what you have in mind :)..

Look at contrib/bmake/Makefile

--sjg




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