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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:13:37 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32F1A9B1.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c39sk$ddl@troma.rv.tis.com> <5c8jlm$50u@cynic.portal.ca> <5c9444$9vq@lace.colorado.edu> <5c98sl$gbn@cynic.portal.ca> <5ckluo$mbl@josie.abo.fi> <32EE6127.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <5cnl06$ket@josie.abo.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154702 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5763 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2069 Mats Andtbacka wrote: > well, great. but what if i don't want it *all* done the same way, just > one utility linked differently from the others and some stuff > optimized less (since i care more about the size of my vi than its Then you tweak the Makefile in that utility to hard-override the passed-in options. I dunno, this is still opposite to typical experience - generally you DO want everything compiled with the same options and you don't want to worry too much about the actual mechanics of doing it. > very true indeed - i've seen imake autogenerate some makefiles shorter > than some handwritten ones for GNU make. > > but so what? i, for one, care a lot more about how well the thing > works in the end than about its size. big makefiles *might* be harder > to handle - or, if they're properly written, they might not. extremely Well, all I can say to that is that I *do* care quite a bit about the size as well as the functionality. The cost of maintaining software over a long lifecycle is already painfully high without adding to it. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project