svn commit: r410453 - in head/math/fityk: . files

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 04:23:53PM +0800, wenheping wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:10:10 +0000, danfe at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:22:54AM +0800, wenheping wrote:
> > > I did not find 'not mute installation" is wrong in Porter's Handbook.
> > 
> > It might not be articulated loud enough, but it's pretty obvious once you
> > think about it: muted commands won't appear in the build log, which makes
> > it harder to debug and fix any issues.
> > 
> > mkdir's are often muted because they do not have the same "debug value"
> > as installation commands, but all cp/COPYTREE_SHARE/ln/etc. commands
> > should not be muted.  This is pretty common knowledge in our community,
> > I find it strange that you've never heard of it.
> 
> To me mkdir has the same debug-value as cp

That's OK, you might mute or not mute mkdir's at your own discretion.

> and I judge the "common knowledge in our community" by Porter's Handbook
> or portlint.

Truth is that most valuable pieces of wisdom are scattered across maillist
discussions and stuff (FWIW, portlint(1) does warn about muted INSTALL_foo
commands, not sure if it does so for cp/COPYTREE_SHARE/ln though).

./danfe