Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:08:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Panic during boot Message-ID: <199604150808.KAA11461@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604150332.UAA04584@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Apr 14, 96 08:32:58 pm
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As David Greenman wrote: > The whole reason why > Jordan made the change to config to blow away the compile directory was > because we kept getting weird bug reports that later turned out to be caused > by a stale .o's. I thought it was rather due to the poor traditional option handling? For me, this is quite a difference. If it's only been for the option handling, -n could go away again once all major (i.e., supported) options have been turned into `new style', since the dependencies on opt_foo.h will work again. People who are using unsupported options, or people who upgrade their machines frequently to newer sources are expected to know what they're doing. We should only protect ``ordinary customers'' against (from their point of view) unforseeable accidents. (I always prevent config from clobbering my compile directory, however, i remove it manually if i think too many things have changed, or if something doesn't work as expected and i cannot figure it out.) -- 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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