From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 22:37:32 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 944EC55E for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com (mail-pa0-f41.google.com [209.85.220.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 642061E9 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id rd3so1686004pab.14 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:37:26 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:message-id:references:to; bh=Fd+1I7xY1sgWlYaPSN+ePsr1pQKoMZTIlmN0TeNO3Eg=; b=GWx16OVf6a1X/z1SBIsrujFkxUhxT8TAowyirD41isLUoMpTojFs2zA+LAULu2+47t f9k+xsemUb16kjZl2p4S8INqUYLECrDSoe5qXAgaXisPRfCmFOYtW/n47XzMVhGwkvZo wJwyyltGkJqEgssdS7dDwUhEBO2goGgfNDu+kPGNn+gVcg6/0Vv6lf8Iscn03dj19W6b edXK9upu7Bp5bQt/K7Wi9FnU+cRgQ5O3qEs94wTQCM2OOAtqBeGYokRFcdi5d6ZGLU33 iZZi71QURyIhD6vKtFZXdUZZ5CRHicdQmt1WhKbyWaMCREGX11omXXHicSPf7DHrP1Q6 GQ8A== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlVWirenLYpyyEGG+2XTYJTGHU52tTJ5/H7kW8WjqaEAxIdXqZPRnjtAWy+Brp03qVvWSlJ X-Received: by 10.70.129.209 with SMTP id ny17mr49573pdb.163.1415227045929; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:37:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.64.26.112] ([69.53.236.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c9sm4054365pdn.81.2014.11.05.14.37.24 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:37:25 -0800 (PST) Sender: Warner Losh Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_1783D049-BACA-47C2-A2BF-73289A959AB7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: Why do we have @ in modules builds? From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <545AA4C5.1060709@cox.net> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 15:37:13 -0700 Message-Id: References: <545AA4C5.1060709@cox.net> To: "John D. Hendrickson" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:37:32 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_1783D049-BACA-47C2-A2BF-73289A959AB7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Nov 5, 2014, at 3:29 PM, John D. Hendrickson = wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: >> Does anybody recall why we have @ symlink in our module builds? >> I=92m constantly working around issues that this creates. Maybe it is = time >> to eliminate it? >> So I=92ve posted the following review: = https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1100 >> Warner >=20 > could you please post what it is that "does not work=94 Having a dependency that start with @ simply doesn=92t work. > and what is is "you must do" to work around it ? .if exists(@) foo.x: @/dev/foo_bar.y .else foo.x: @ .endif This is needlessly complicated and somewhat annoying when there=92s = already machinery in place that locates the base of the kernel tree. Warner --Apple-Mail=_1783D049-BACA-47C2-A2BF-73289A959AB7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUWqaZAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEA6Q0P+wQUbIbJmbp5iiDby9iKUpq7 nDmVVs6oN3tNvCI0Tp1VEjXfT/gij69ViMhnRWQPJhhjyechSiAB3exREW5zeqxZ hKVBFXLMANzyTy0Q3gw+3IwRp4VYef7XVWLF91kJglMKMwUPcc35dV68MIRc1YVl sZLLsbxfZf9AZmRV2jrq8Fty3f3Svm8hi3EeRy+SB8ncq99fEdJCnJVbLWNX7vp2 A6FVp6co35HbqSHDgMFnP53iKYFmR+Sg/w4J3yqr4ctdAIOwsNnrpen5HunC/vS3 ci9EYo96RP/zRIuXeYEUGzccOyghYAVpc2tdjXQQ4N9DtZWBig1oY940C/aD+A8q d4njyj3mXDKjWSUHg6dUgMSvoMX8Yf4PDb//D7XnRsusFimoJQU0m7Sclrb1YQIs neKXH6xA8TOXv78q6KSsYNyCLvJxnjkqvPnfcYbXV3Ja3XA9/sENNgkzqfJIUYi/ 84DJQLm0xtlH1t/p1So/QIMk1O8AMZxcpzxooDPlPqivE6LuJLpTAZuwGsszChvk 4xWCbajxT4bUvcj4AkwsU9RMpNywY+yYF9K+L6vl+XIG0Y1nBiriFbjEhwSaNMe5 3tPScLkFVXB56O8RNfrqf7AJ8tklYrLpCgjsrfnl+QC+NkRxA5b3O6NEZltWKjHo yrEnCP6ExKlSQbaoozGg =LuIO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_1783D049-BACA-47C2-A2BF-73289A959AB7--