[PATCH] fix phk build system

Federico Schwindt fgsch at lodoss.net
Wed Sep 16 14:54:57 CEST 2015


I never quite understood why we have binaries output'ing .rst.  It's not
like the options change daily.



On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Guillaume Quintard <
guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> I thought the problem had more to do with ordering build targets and
> less with what binary was used, so merging de *_opt2rst may not help.
> And I see no real reason for a binary to output rst.
>
> However, it would greatly improve readability/maintainability (that
> could be done using GNU make features, but we'd lose bmake
> compatibility), and I'm all for that.
> --
> Guillaume Quintard
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
> wrote:
> > --------
> > In message <
> CABaBnj48U7gS7F7UfY5kzFOgVnk2JPp3ob7m2HGv2xiQNkjOpw at mail.gmail.com>
> > , Kacper Wysocki writes:
> >
> >>A discussion with Martin at the VDD concluded that a good way to clean
> this up
> >>would be to take the opt2rst functions into each binary as an
> >>undocumented option. I'll be happy to try that if noone objects.
> >
> > I think that makes sense.  We also have the RST emitting stuff integrated
> > in varnishd, and it's not like diskspace is horribly expensive these
> days.
> >
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