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Date:      Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:16:02 +1100 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: buildworld and PAM and login and stuff
Message-ID:  <199812100216.NAA12509@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <28073.913254630@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 9, 98 05:50:30 pm"

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Just playing devil's advocate:
> 
> Like I said, those are only the unsubtle ones.  If you're able to
> devise a set of test cases which don't add 3 hours to the buildworld
> time and catch potential abuses for all the various knobs in
> /etc/make.conf, I'd be the first to buy you a case of beer in sheer
> admiration.
> 
> Needless to say, I also consider it a pretty safe bet. :-)

Yup.

For those who think it _is_ practical to devise a set of test cases,
consider this:

   If I set CFLAGS in make.conf to -pipe on alpha (so that the -O is
   missing), and I do a `make world' that completes without error, what
   did I mess up?

Anyone know?

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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