On 4 March 2016 at 11:37, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 16:03 +0000, Ed Maste wrote: >> Author: emaste >> Date: Fri Mar 4 16:03:15 2016 >> New Revision: 296387 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/296387 >> >> Log: >> Add dd as a bootstrap tool, for status= support >> >> In r295757 I added status=none to buildworld's use of dd, but >> FreeBSD >> versions before April 2014 lack support. >> >> Modified: >> head/Makefile.inc1 > > It seems like at this point the amount of base NOT being built as a > bootstrap tool is becoming pretty small.
I'm sympathetic to the desire to avoid bloating bootstrap tools. But we're really not building all of base twice. > Couldn't a >/dev/null at the > point of use have gotten rid of the progress/status output? No, because the stats are written to stderr. I wouldn't want to redirect stderr to /dev/null because we'd lose any error that might be emitted. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
