docs/87186: Handbook recommends outdated make op.

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 10 13:40:24 UTC 2005


The following reply was made to PR docs/87186; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: Chad Castleberry <chadcastleberry at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/87186: Handbook recommends outdated make op.
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:36:44 +0300

 On 2005-10-10 04:45, Chad Castleberry <chadcastleberry at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Handbook recommends using NOPROFILE when building world
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
 > Yet that option has been depreciated in favor of NO_PROFILE.
 
 Good catch.
 
 The Handbook has to support older releases too (i.e. 4.11), that may
 not have NO_XXX options.  I think we can change NOPROFILE to
 NO_PROFILE and add a <note> for those older releases though.
 



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