Re: git: b908f6c45e02 - main - bsd.mkopt.mk: Add REQUIRED_OPTIONS list

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:45:16 UTC
On 6/19/23 20:46, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023, 9:14 PM Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org 
> <mailto:cperciva@freebsd.org>> wrote:
>     On 6/19/23 18:18, Warner Losh wrote:
>      > On Mon, Jun 19, 2023, 7:04 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org
>     <mailto:emaste@freebsd.org>
>      > <mailto:emaste@freebsd.org <mailto:emaste@freebsd.org>>> wrote:
>      >     On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 20:23, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org
>     <mailto:cperciva@freebsd.org>
>      >     <mailto:cperciva@freebsd.org <mailto:cperciva@freebsd.org>>> wrote:
>      >      > bsd.mkopt.mk <http://bsd.mkopt.mk> <http://bsd.mkopt.mk
>     <http://bsd.mkopt.mk>>: Add REQUIRED_OPTIONS list
>      >      >
>      >      >     Options on this list will be forced to 'yes'.  This is
>     intended for use
>      >      >     as a transitional measure when an option is ceasing to be
>     optional,
>      >      >     before all of the associated make logic is removed.
>      >
>      >     Should we emit a warning when an option is disabled in src.conf but
>      >     specified in REQUIRED_OPTIONS?
>      >
>      >     e.g. warning: WITHOUT_CAPSICUM option ignored: it is no longer
>     supported
>      >
>      > I asked for this in the review... I didn't approve the review because I
>     was
>      > waiting for an answer to the request.
> 
>     I'm happy to add such a warning, although I'm not sure how useful it would be
>     (unless we add a 'sleep 60' afterwards perhaps?), but I don't see any such
>     comments on the review... did phabricator eat it?
> 
> 
> People will see it. No sleep needed. People read the logs.
> 
> Maybe I was too subtle since we went down the does := work twice...

D40613.

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