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Re: NO_BUILD handling

To: tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: NO_BUILD handling
From: Marc Espie <espie%nerim.net@localhost>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:09:50 +0100

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 05:02:42PM -0700, Brook Milligan wrote:
> Will someone please explain the rationale for the NO_BUILD mechanism being based upon defined/undefined rather than definitions of yes/no?

History.

In OpenBSD, we inherited that stuff as well from FreeBSD, and it's been
a fairly long road to replace every undefined stuff with actual Yes/No
values.

References:
- NO_BUILD handling
  - From: Brook Milligan

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