make.conf syntax

Erik Trulsson ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Mon Mar 20 23:16:55 UTC 2006


On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:00:08PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I believe I used the wrong syntax in my make.conf
> I used
> 
> NO_PROFILE="YES"
> 
> Should I have instead used
> 
> NO_PROFILE=YES
> 
> or
> 
> NO_PROFILE=TRUE

It shouldn't matter.

> 
> 
> Is YES and TRUE and 1 equivalent in this context?

Yes, and they are also equivalent to NO or FALSE.
The makefiles only check if NO_PROFILE is defined, not what it is 
defined as.
This is true for many other makefile variables as well.



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Erik Trulsson
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