svn commit: r296387 - head

[Ed Maste]

On 4 March 2016 at 11:37, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 16:03 +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
>> Author: emaste
>> Date: Fri Mar  4 16:03:15 2016
>> New Revision: 296387
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/296387
>>
>> Log:
>>   Add dd as a bootstrap tool, for status= support
>>
>>   In r295757 I added status=none to buildworld's use of dd, but
>> FreeBSD
>>   versions before April 2014 lack support.
>>
>> Modified:
>>   head/Makefile.inc1
>
> It seems like at this point the amount of base NOT being built as a
> bootstrap tool is becoming pretty small.

I'm sympathetic to the desire to avoid bloating bootstrap tools. But
we're really not building all of base twice.

>  Couldn't a >/dev/null at the
> point of use have gotten rid of the progress/status output?

No, because the stats are written to stderr.  I wouldn't want to
redirect stderr to /dev/null because we'd lose any error that might be
emitted.