Re: Keeping OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc up to date

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé
<olivier_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use "make delete-old" specifying WITHOUT_ keyword for
> removing some no-more used set of files.
>
> I've start by testing WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN:
> - Some of files related to clang are correctly delete
> - But there are still lot's of others (like /usr/bin/cc)
>
> Then I've checked tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.in and found that
> lot's files are missing in the ".if ${MK_TOOLCHAIN} == no" section.
>
> I've started a new run of phk's build_options_survey script:
> https://people.freebsd.org/~olivier/build_option_survey_20160406/
>
> And wonder if it's possible to automatically generate the list of
> conditional files to be put in OptionalObsoleteFiles.in from the result of
> a build_option_survey script ?

amdmi3 had a method for doing this, but I think it was a bit of a
brute force approach (I could be wrong).

The release-pkg project branch method seems like the best way to go
about it though because it would kind of do the sanity checking for
us...

Thanks!
-Ngie