svn commit: r228196 - in head: share/mk tools/build/options

[Max Khon]

Bruce,

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>> Log:
>>  Revert to conservative defaults. WITH_PROFILE is a default now.
>>
>>  NO_PROFILE overrides in Makefile.inc1 and bsd.own.m are left intact
>>  so that the reversal to the WITHOUT_PROFILE will be easier in future.
>
>
> Thanks.  Not building profiled libraries might have been best in 1993
> when makeworld took hours (4-10?).  When I optimized makeworld in 1998,
> it still took more than 1 hour but I removing profiling from it was
> intentionally left out (except for bootstrapping).  It would have saved
> only a few minutes.  Now, a whole makeworld should take a few minutes
> and the few extra seconds for profiling libraries doesn't matter.

The real goal was to have reasonable defaults. The definition of
reasonable differs. The definition for some of us is: if I use it it
should be the default. My definition is: the system needs minimum
tweaks for the majority of users.

Max