Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 06:57:59 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Yuri Pankov <ypankov@fastmail.com> Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Trond_Endrest=c3=b8l?= <trond.endrestol@ximalas.info>, Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildkernel failure because ctfconvert not installed Message-ID: <89524.1586501879@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <9f03fb79-a0ad-3c11-9a50-bc7731882da9@fastmail.com> References: <20200408083204.4a2d6dbc@ernst.home> <814e8e7d-68e6-bead-481b-21c5552583c4@FreeBSD.org> <20200409093346.1aec1bba@ernst.home> <20200409105626.386b0ba5@ernst.home> <alpine.BSF.2.22.395.2004091337000.8527@enterprise.ximalas.info> <9f03fb79-a0ad-3c11-9a50-bc7731882da9@fastmail.com>
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In message <9f03fb79-a0ad-3c11-9a50-bc7731882da9@fastmail.com>, Yuri Panko=
v writes:
>Trond Endrest=C3=B8l wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 10:56+0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> =
>>> OK, I figured it out.
>>>
>>> I used to have MK_CTF=3Dno in src.conf, but I recently changed it to
>>> WITH_CTF=3Dno.
>> =
>> It's either WITH_xxx=3Dyes or WITHOUT_xxx=3Dyes.
>
>Or even WITH_xxx=3D or WITHOUT_xxx=3D, src.conf(5) explicitly states that=
=
>value is NOT checked:
>
>The values of variables are ignored regardless of their setting; even if =
> they would be set to "FALSE" or "NO". The presence of an option =
>causes it to be honored by make(1).
That is not even close to POLA-compliance...
Obviously negative values ("false", "no") should either be reported as
errors or preferably be respected.
PS: [This is not the bikeshed you are looking for]
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