From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 12 12: 5:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E06E37BD0E for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:01:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA29908 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:58:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id UAA02620 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:58:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FE637BEB6 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:27:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00476; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:19:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "buildig release" knob in make world/release In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:16:55 PDT." <9189.955552615@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:19:28 +0200 Message-ID: <474.955563568@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <9189.955552615@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> This begs the question if we should add a top-level knob which sets >> the entire build, world, release, kernels and modules in one of two >> modes: > >I agree that there should be a knob, but I see it as a make.conf >knob rather than a release knob since most people playing with this >stuff build from sources rather than install snapshots. Well, yes, /etc/make.conf were the intended location for it all the time, the question was more if it was wanted or not... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message