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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:33:00 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, darrenr@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Making LINT (was: [spam score 3.31/10.0 -pobox] Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fil.c ip_fil.h ip_input.c ip_output.c ipprotosw.h src/sys/netin)
Message-ID:  <20000802163259.K36094@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008021644120.6771-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:49:28PM %2B1000
References:  <20000802084127.M59431@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008021644120.6771-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Wednesday,  2 August 2000 at 16:49:28 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 31 July 2000 at 20:45:16 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>> Robert Watson wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's why the FreeBSD project provides remote compilation resources
>>>>> (build machines) for you to test on when you can't test locally - you're
>>>>> expected to have compiled LINT prior to making intrusive commits to the
>>>>> kernel, or not commit at all. Please see the committer's handbook.
>>>>
>>>> Sadly, LINT has gone away in -CURRENT, leaving many committers without an
>>>> easy way to test compilability with various options.  I'm not sure what
>>>> the best solution to this problem is, but it would be nice to have
>>>> something.
>>>
>>> Ahem!  On -current:
>>>
>>> peter@t8000[8:42pm]~src/sys/i386/conf-188> ls
>>> CVS/            Makefile        NOTES           T8000.lite
>>> GENERIC         NEWCARD         T8000           gethints.pl
>>> GENERIC.hints   NEWCARD.hints   T8000.full      makeLINT.pl
>>> peter@t8000[8:42pm]~src/sys/i386/conf-189> ls LINT
>>> ls: LINT: No such file or directory
>>> peter@t8000[8:42pm]~src/sys/i386/conf-190> make LINT
>>> perl5 makeLINT.pl < NOTES > LINT
>>
>> Is this in UPDATING?
>
> Developers should know all about this from reading their cvs mail:
>
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/Attic/LINT,v
> Working file: LINT
> head: 1.783
> ...
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.783
> date: 2000/06/13 22:28:46;  author: peter;  state: dead;  lines: +1 -1
> Borrow phk's axe and apply the next stage of config(8)'s evolution.
>
> ...
>
> There are a few things that I'm not too happy with yet.  Under this scheme,
> things like LINT would no longer be useful as "documentation" of settings.
> I have renamed this file to 'NOTES' and stored the example hints strings
> in it.  However... this is not something that config(8) understands, so
> there is a script that extracts the build-specific data from the
> documentation file (NOTES) to produce a LINT that can be config'ed and
> built.  A stack of man4 pages will need updating. :-/
>
> ...
>
> Please exercise EXTREME CAUTION when transitioning!
>
> Moral support by: phk, msmith, dfr, asmodai, imp, and others
> ----------------------------
>
> It was the least traumatic part of the hints changes (since it only affects
> developers).

Maybe.  But I read that commit message (and in fact suggested to
Warner that he put something about it in UPDATING), but we both missed
that point.  If we can, I suggest that others can too.

Greg
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