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Date:      Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bsd.lib.mk "@"'s
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906071503160.679-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990607135557.8162A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>

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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, David Scheidt wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > Why are many of the build lines in bsd.lib.mk hidden with leading @'s,
> > so that they don't display in the build?  This is useless, it hides
> > things that go wrong, and hardly belongs here, it seems to me.
> > 
> 
> How often do your calls to ld, mv and rm fail? 

That's not the point, the point is that current is a bleeding edge
thing, not production, and the details should not be hidden, there's no
possible justification for that.

Besides, calls to ld *do* fail, in the build, except the way it is now,
it's harder to figure out.

> 
> David
> 
> 

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