Re: MAKE_JOBS_ARG

Roland Illig <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:42:50 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 26.07.2026 um 14:27 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> I didn't really like the proposed MAKE_JOBS_ARG
> name but I can't think of anything better.

Same here. My first impression was that a variable named XYZ_ARG would
be a single argument that is passed to a shell command. Reading that the
value can be set to "no" made me think of a special value that would be
filtered out.

The existing variables having the types "Yes" or "YesNo" differ wildly
in their names. Some use the form USE_XYZ, so a better name might be
USE_MAKE_JOBS. Or CUSTOM_MAKE_JOBS, with yes/no reversed.

Roland