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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 2017 14:32:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, Ngie Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r314657 - in head/kerberos5: . lib/libgssapi_krb5 lib/libgssapi_ntlm lib/libgssapi_spnego lib/libhdb lib/libkafs5 lib/libkrb5 libexec/hprop libexec/kpasswdd tools/asn1_compile tools/slc
Message-ID:  <201703042232.v24MW9jt079229@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <AA8BB525-8261-421B-A700-D983C6897D8A@gmail.com>

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> > On Mar 4, 2017, at 13:43, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>> On 3/4/2017 12:20 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >>> -- Start of PGP signed section.
> >>> [ Charset windows-1252 unsupported, converting... ]
> >>>>> On 3/4/2017 7:34 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >>>>> What is ${.CURDIR:H:H} ?????  Yes that seems to work but now we are obscuring
> >>>>> ../.. into makefile syntax magic, probably not a grand idea.
> >>>> It just trims off the last directory component.  This both reduces
> >>>> namecache lookups, lessens the amount of data in a log, and makes
> >>>> debugging a log simpler by not having a crazy path like:
> >>>> /home/bdrewery/big/git/buildserver/sys/modules/usb/template/../../../dev/usb/template/usb_template.c
> >>>> 
> >>>> It's far simpler to understand and work with:
> >>>> /home/bdrewery/big/git/buildserver/sys/dev/usb/template/usb_template.c
> >>>> 
> >>>> The only downside is it is slightly more obscure in a Makefile, but once
> >>>> you know what :H is then it's not a problem.  This is why SRCTOP is even
> >>>> better than this as it is far more clear than even :H and avoids the
> >>>> ../../ problems.
> >>> Lets do one or the other, but not both ${SRCTOP} and :H:H:H.  It appears
> >>> that we now have a mix and mashed up some one way others the other.
> >> 
> >> That I can agree with. I would prefer to standardize on SRCTOP as :H is
> >> too obscure without learning about make details.
> > 
> > :H is insane in 90% of the cases I've seen it used. Let's roll with
> > SRCTOP everywhere we can. That's safer from directory motion anyway...
> 
> Ok, I have 3 votes for SRCTOP, so I'll implement the remaining change using SRCTOP (for usr.bin), and reimplement the previous changes using SRCTOP.

And that some how over rides the 3 votes for not doing any of these changes?
Slow down please.  We dont need a bike shed, but I think we need a clear
target and a consense larger than 3+ 3- and less than a 6 hour wall clock
of discussion.   

It would also be best if it was this change and only this change committed
in very large (preferably about 20) commits.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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