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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:39:25 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk bsd.README
Message-ID:  <864q262zci.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20060309090307.GK54826@ip.net.ua> (Ruslan Ermilov's message of "Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:03:07 %2B0200")
References:  <200603090133.k291XcfB005631@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060309090307.GK54826@ip.net.ua>

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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:33:38AM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> >   Log:
> >   Now that we now spell NO_MAN=3Dxxx MAN=3D, update the docs.
> I object.
>
> 1) This is not common:
>
> grep '^NO_MAN=3D' {bin,usr.bin,sbin,usr.sbin}/*/Makefile |wc -l
>       10
> grep '^MAN=3D[[:space:]]*(#.*)?$' {bin,usr.bin,sbin,usr.sbin}/*/Makefile =
|wc -l
>        0
>
> 2) MAN=3D is worse for performance (with NO_MAN, bsd.man.mk is not
>    processes at all which is faster).
>
> 3) This is in contrast with NO_OBJ and similar knobs.
>
> I can only suggest to make it spell "NO_MAN=3D", i.e., without any value.
>
> Was there some discussion that I've missed?

I was told long ago (shortly after we switched from MAN[1-9] to just
MAN, I believe) that NO_MAN was wrong, and the correct way was to
define MAN to an empty value.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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