Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-commit] SF.net SVN: axiom: [508] branches/wh-sandbox

[gdr]

Quoting Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden>:

> Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > address@hidden writes:
> >
> > | Revision: 508
> > |           http://svn.sourceforge.net/axiom/?rev=508&view=rev
> > | Author:   whebisch
> > | Date:     2007-04-18 13:25:00 -0700 (Wed, 18 Apr 2007)
> > |
> > | Log Message:
> > | -----------
> > | Eradicate ENV.
> >
> > ENV disappeared from Axiom.build-improvements long time ago.
> > I'm glad to see that is populating down.  I wish the propagation to
> > wh-sandbox is properly labelled to facilitate review when it comes to
> > merging.
>
> One remark: I dislike both ENV and AX_FLAGS (to say the truth I dislike
> AX_FLAGS more than ENV).

Ah, it is a matter of dislike :-/

I'll very much appreciate to be enlightened about where all this is
going.  If you plan a merge back to build-improvements, then I suspect
it is more productive to refrain from gratuitous incompatibilities
based on dislike.  If you don't plan merge back to build-improvements,
please let us know.

> So, the change to wh-sandbox is _not_ a
> mechanical merge from build-improvements -- wh-sandbox moves remaininig
> part of ENV (most could be dropped after other changes) to 'var-def.mk'.
> This causes some breakage (the NOISE variable does not work as originally
> intended) which ATM I consider tolerable (and I intend to fix when
> re-working NOISE).
>
> --
>                              Waldek Hebisch
> address@hidden