On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:04:46PM +0000, Andreas Metzler wrote: > For the sake of perhaps shortening the discussion I will insert a > description, as I understand it. > > * prescriptive > a variable you set manually before starting to build to change the way > the build runs. A nice example is DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. > > * descriptive > The variable is not supposed to be set manually, instead they are set > by the rules, e.g. "NOT_DOING_BLAH" reflects the fact that the > build does not do BLAH, not the other way round, setting > "NOT_DOING_BLAH" by hand won't influence whether BLAH is executed. Correct. Thanks for taking the time to explain this. -- G. Branden Robinson | For every credibility gap, there is Debian GNU/Linux | a gullibility fill. branden@debian.org | -- Richard Clopton http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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