HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Tue Jan 20 17:41:08 PST 2004


Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:20:57PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> 
>>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>>>>>Type: FEATURE
>>>>>
>>>>>Title: Add per-port persistent build options with a menu-driven
>>>>>front-end
>>
>>[snipped]
>>
>>>>>PR:
>>>>>
>>>>>Submitted by: eivind
>>
>>[snipped]
>>
>>>What's the general consensus on this (is there one)?  What about ports
>>
>>Sadly, we've seen no PR before and couldn't discuss it.
> 
> 
> It's been discussed off and on for several years.  There were a couple
> of prototypes developed, all of which had various problems, including
> a prototype I wrote.  Eivind did some more work on my code (and his
> initial version also had problems, as I recall), but I assume they
> were all cleaned up in the version that was committed.
> 
> Kris
 It is great to *finally* see something that works. I t would be perfect
with persistend non-yes-no-options ;-)


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