BURN_BRIDGES in bsd.own.mk

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Jan 4 06:23:41 UTC 2013


On Jan 3, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> We still have code in bsd.own.mk to support a selection of old-style
> NO_FOO options, protected by .if !defined(BURN_BRIDGES) (which is not in
> any way related to the similarly-named kernel option).  There is also
> bsd.compat.mk, which handles the even older-style NOFOO options (by
> translating them to NO_FOO and emitting a warning).  These chunks of
> code date back to 2006 and 2004, respectively.  I think it's way past
> time we nuked them.  Any objections?

Kill them.

When they were put in, they were there to designate things that shouldn't be relied upon and would be deleted soon...

Warner



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