Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:01:07 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org>, brooks@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Makefile.inc1.patch Message-ID: <8D80A156-F649-4CA1-846A-DBAE9CC30627@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140123215430.4B7B15807E@chaos.jnpr.net> References: <B4D2A908-715F-484F-8028-A1F38884AF3F@gmail.com> <CAOtMX2jQ24JCR2Ct8YKob4MKcHWMhVVv5XG-1usoPWqEOA2OQg@mail.gmail.com> <4A3E3984-73D3-4441-97A7-D58679EFF978@gmail.com> <9775878D-91AB-4BE4-ADFA-32D8DB582AA6@gmail.com> <20140123210308.0E1D65807E@chaos.jnpr.net> <EBDCAEEC-9485-4EA5-AA60-943EA70A3171@gmail.com> <20140123215430.4B7B15807E@chaos.jnpr.net>
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On Jan 23, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:30:12 -0800, Garrett Cooper writes: >>> Not crazy about frobbing ${MAKE} >>=20 >> Neither am I, but .export is a bmake only feature. I=3D92m still = using =3D >> fmake :(. >=20 > Not necessarily a good excuse ;-) fmake: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DdGFXGwHsD_A !!!!=94 :D It needs to die sometime, but Makefile.inc1 needs to continue to work = with it (for the time being). >>> The semantics in bsd.own.mk are quite broken and result in a lot of = =3D >> complex >>> dancing to keep things working. >>=20 >> In this case though, this is complex dancing due to how the different = =3D >> stages stack upon one another in the build process and the fact that = =3D >> meta make isn=3D92t here (yet), so things have to be built in the = right =3D >> order. This method is one that I=3D92ve been using for quite some = time =3D >> without any side effects on multiple machines... >=20 > Actually a simple tweak to the bsd.own.mk semantics would alleviate of > lot of the pain. Throwing errors if MK_* is already set, or if both > WITH_* and WITHOUT_* are set makes the usage very messy indeed. Yeah... > 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 guess you could even allow a per-knob setting as to which takes > precedence.=20 You mean override the default so WITH_* overrides WITHOUT_*? > 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 Curious to see what you have in mind :).. Thanks for the input :)! -Garrett=
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