On May 31,  8:30am, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch

| On May 31, 2005, at 4:09 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > On May 30, 10:34pm, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
| > No, I am talking about ${MAKE}, ${CC}, ${CPP}, ${ELF2ECOFF}, ${MKDEP},
| > ${OBJCOPY}, ${OBJDUMP}, ${STRIP}, ${AWK}, ... I.e. all programs that
| > are used by the build infrastructure and exist both as tools an in
| > the tree.
| 
| If you have a problem with the TOOL_ prefix, maybe you should have  
| complained to Luke when he made the change.  We have *lots* of tools  
| that use the TOOL_ prefix (largely ones that are non-standard, i.e.  
| ones that were introduced in NetBSD's build system).  I was, in fact,  
| following someone else's lead on the TOOL_ prefix for TOOL_GENASSYM.

I don't have any problem with the TOOL prefix. I did not change any
of that. I disagreed upon having $GENASSYM point to the config file
instead of the program name, that is why I fixed it. It felt akin
having $MAKE = Makefile.

christos