WITHOUT_MODULES, does it actually work?

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 18 03:36:53 UTC 2009


Ben Kelly wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> Ben Kelly wrote:
>>> It seems there are some left over bits then.  I have this in /usr/src/sys/modules/Makefile:
>>>
>>> .for reject in ${WITHOUT_MODULES}
>>> SUBDIR:= ${SUBDIR:N${reject}}
>>> .endfor
>> Well it seems my search was not exhaustive.
>>
>> My recommendation then would be to file a src PR so that someone can
>> look into it. :)
> 
> I've opened a doc PR for the bad example in the handbook and a conf PR for the patch to make WITHOUT_MODULES work from the kernel config file using makeoptions.  I haven't gotten PR numbers back from the system yet.

You can add to the mix the fact that options like modules_override and
without_modules are documented in make.conf(5) instead of in
src.conf(5) which is where (arguably) they should be.


Doug

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