cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 src/share/mk bsd.compat.mk

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 1 03:12:14 GMT 2005


On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:04:34AM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:31:15PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:42:33PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > If you are just hiding the warning, can you explain your reasoning,
> > > as in my opinion it just kills the idea of "deprecation".  People
> > > will continue to use it, without letting us remove it safely later.
> > 
> > 1. We don't deprecate it.  There is no reason to.  We keep other "ugly"
> >    stuff for even more trival reasons.
> > 2. The warnings give faults postivies to build issues.
> > 
> *Shrug*
> 
> 1.  My plan on deprecating them in 7.0-RELEASE was OK'ed by core at .
>     For now (RELENG_5 and RELENG_6), old spellings are supported,
>     and deprecation warning is issued.
> 
> 2.  What makes NOCLEAN so special, what about other knobs?

It is issued from the command line [many times], the others are written
once in a Makefile.  Since your desire to kill off 'NOCLEAN', I've lost
the contents of /usr/obj many, many times when I wanted to do a quick
compile test before committing.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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