From ff8d43757d77d23ed3a29ded3a5b6bb973b81c00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 18:38:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the switch to bmake by default. Reviewed by: obrien --- UPDATING | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 60da2227df36..d41f9312873b 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -31,6 +31,18 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW: disable the most expensive debugging functionality run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20130516: + Use bmake by default. + Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via + -DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old + make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE. + + It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command + line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the + command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer + than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent + behavior in parallel build. + 20130429: Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.