Re: WITHOUT_TELNET=yes .. does it work?

From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy_at_acm.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:12:44 +1100
On 2009-Nov-18 14:07:32 +0000, "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>On 18 Nov 2009, at 14:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
>> 
>> Poor placement IMHO, we shouldn't have dependencies from src into tools.
>
>Its obscure location explains why it doesn't work. :-) Maybe it
>should be src/OptionalFiles.inc? That said, it still sounds like a
>significant maintenance problem to me: we have a lot of WITHOUT_
>options, and they may have non-trivial interactions...

I suggest closer to a maintenance nightmare - expecting developers to
track files that might be installed with different combinations of
something like 35 build options is unrealistic.  Such a file is only
practical if the contents can be build mostly automatically.

-- 
Peter Jeremy

Received on Fri Nov 20 2009 - 06:12:55 UTC

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