Forgotten debuging flags in 9.0 RELEASE

[rank1seeker at gmail.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: rank1seeker at gmail.com
Cc: dougb at freebsd.org, hackers at freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:14:56 -0400
Subject: Re: Forgotten debuging flags in 9.0 RELEASE

> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:37:09 am rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> > To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> > Cc: rank1seeker at gmail.com, dougb at freebsd.org
> > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:28:49 -0400
> > Subject: Re: Forgotten debuging flags in 9.0 RELEASE
> > 
> > > On Saturday, April 21, 2012 12:43:28 pm rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Whenever I run:
> > > > # make distribution
> > > > 
> > > > I also get:
> > > > + ln -s ../var/named/etc/namedb /usr/TZONE/etc/namedb
> > > > + ln -s mail/aliases /usr/TZONE/etc/aliases
> > > > 
> > > > Looks like someone forgot to turn off/remove debuging flags(set -x), 
> before 
> > > building 9.0 RELEASE
> > > 
> > > Actually, those have been there for at least 7 years.  The namedb one was 
> > > first added in r136242, and the mail one is older than that.
> > > 
> > > > /usr/src/etc/Makefile:
> > > > ----
> > > >         @if [ ! -e ${DESTDIR}/etc/namedb ]; then \
> > > >                 set -x; \
> > > >                 ln -s ../var/named/etc/namedb ${DESTDIR}/etc/namedb; \
> > > >         fi
> > > > ----
> > > >         @if [ -d ${DESTDIR}/etc/mail -a -f ${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/aliases -
> a \
> > > >               ! -f ${DESTDIR}/etc/aliases ]; then \
> > > >                 set -x; \
> > > >                 ln -s mail/aliases ${DESTDIR}/etc/aliases; \
> > > >         fi
> > > > ----
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > John Baldwin
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 7 years ?!?
> > Wow, it's time to get rid of them, unless someone finds it criticaly 
> useful/needed.
> 
> Alternatively, it hasn't broken anything in 7 years. :)

LOL. Vey funny!

> > My build script had many set -x lines, so I was thinking it was my script 
> outputing it.
> > I thought I was going mad, by being unable to find where am I using 'ln -s' 
> lines, even after I've removed all 'set -x' lines
> 
> I will defer to dougb@ on this one as it is a chunk of the code he maintains.
> You will have to convince him that the verbosity is somehow harmful.
> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin

Well, those can be left in place, if they are part of STDOUT, as I leave only STDERR to reach my eyes.
And I see exactly those 2 'ln -s ...' lines because they are outputed  to STDERR.


Domagoj Smolčić