Documentation of NO_* knobs

[Christian Brueffer]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:49:33AM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:04:10PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:18:31AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > 
> > > I think you're looking for all the WITHOUT knobs in src.conf(5).
> > 
> > I'm running RELENG_6_3 on production machines unlikely to change
> > any time real soon.
> > 
> > > Note that src.conf(5) does not apply to RELENG_6 or earlier, where the
> > > knobs are named NO_xxx.  You can get a list of those from
> > > /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf.
> > 
> > I knew about that file. NO_SYSCONS and NO_EXAMPLES are neither
> > in this one nor in the manpage for make.conf.
> > Yet they are in the handbook example for NanoBSD builds.
> > 
> 
> If they are missing, it's a bug.  make.conf(5) and src.conf(5) from 7.0
> onwards really are the official documentation.
> 

To follow up on this, according to src/share/Makefile, there is neither
NO_SYSCONS nor NO_EXAMPLES in RELENG_6, hence no documentation :-)

There are WITHOUT_SYSCONS and WITHOUT_EXAMPLES in RELENG_7 though.

- Christian

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