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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:23:21 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "buildig release" knob in make world/release 
Message-ID:  <1175.955574601@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:19:59 MDT." <200004121819.MAA39025@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <200004121819.MAA39025@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <9189.955552615@zippy.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>: 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.
>
>Call it SANITY_CHECKING.  Have it be a number.  0 == RELEASE, 1 ==
>DEVELOPMENT, 2 == development of risky things, etc.  It would default

Wouldn't "PARANOIA" or "PARANOIA_LEVEL" be the right thing then ?

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