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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:59:45 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/etc/defaults make.conf src/games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common new.sgml src/share/examples/etc README.examples make.conf src/share/man/man5 make.conf.5 src/share/man/man7 build.7 ...
Message-ID:  <20010831185945.A94310@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <200108311543.f7VFh5h04848@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:43:05AM -0600
References:  <20010831141549.A55775@sunbay.com> <200108302244.f7UMipb68871@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010831112802.A32037@sunbay.com> <20010831125424.A1012@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <20010831141549.A55775@sunbay.com> <200108311543.f7VFh5h04848@harmony.village.org>

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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:43:05AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <20010831141549.A55775@sunbay.com> Ruslan Ermilov writes:
> : What is the reason that make(1) should .error (read: exit 1;
> : the following .include is meaningless) if it encounters the
> : /etc/defaults/make.conf?  Since the user was not supposed to
> : edit this file, and the only uncommented thing was BDECFLAGS,
> : wouldn't it be more intuitive to just stop including it, but
> : not bail out?
> 
> I agree.  There's no reason to error out for something like this....
> 
Not that I object to backing this out (I myself only notices this
thread on -arch when my daily -CURRENT build script bailed out
from .error in sys.mk), but I've got the feeling from reading
the complete thread on freefall in archives that BDE said OK to
this move.


Cheers,
-- 
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