From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 23 11:52:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA08068 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA08063 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:52:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA02742 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:52:36 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA01609; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:46:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:46:15 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel configuration References: <28199.853858730@time.cdrom.com> <199701220857.TAA08248@profane.iq.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701220857.TAA08248@profane.iq.org>; from Julian Assange on Jan 22, 1997 19:57:21 +1100 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Assange wrote: > I feel a little woosey looking > at -DFFS -DIPDIVERT -DINSERTYOURUNDEPENDABLECPPDEFILEHERE's marching > up my screen during a kernel compile. A define which does nothing > is pointless and a define which does something potentially changes > code and so must be referred to as dependency by the code it effects. > The only command line define that is acceptable is -DKERNEL. -D_KERNEL, actually. But you're right. Unfortunately, it's still a mile to walk eliminating the remaining -Ds. -- 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. ;-)