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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 1995 00:29:30 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        davidg@freefall.freebsd.org (David Greenman)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config mkmakefile.c
Message-ID:  <199510232329.AAA13603@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199510231029.DAA02147@freefall.freebsd.org> from "David Greenman" at Oct 23, 95 03:29:20 am

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As David Greenman wrote:
> 
> davidg      95/10/23 03:29:17
> 
>   Modified:    usr.sbin/config  mkmakefile.c
>   Log:
>   Don't pre-processor define 'ident'. This has subtle consequences for people
>   who don't carefully consider their choice for the machine name. The same
>   functionality can still be had with an "option", so nothing is lost.

That's quite unfair, now that i've finally been *documenting* this
feature in the handbook, just two days before.

:-)

Ok, i assume this is for -current only, and won't affect 2.1.  So the
hint should remain in the handbook for 2.1.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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