the more build knobs bikeshed

Remko Lodder remko at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 16 17:00:08 UTC 2008


Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
>> In message <48CF1979.90507 at errno.com>, Sam Leffler writes:
>>> Here is a patch against HEAD to add several knew MK_* knobs that can be
>>> used to trim the build for small-footprint applications:
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/build.patch
>>
>> Looks good.
> 
> Yes, I agree.  I'd love to see these and other similar patches
> that can be useful with nanobsd hit the tree and MFC'd.
> 
> It'd be nice to eventually have something with a tree-like
> dependency chain, so you could remove the leaves or branches.
> Adding a leaf would also automatically add any missing
> branches (warning or informing you what it added).  If
> that sounds too vxWorks'ish, sorry ;-)
> 

I like it a lot Sam!

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