From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 22:19:31 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] gdb texinfo dependency In-Reply-To: References: <20161005172756.77aea89c@free-electrons.com> <20161005221619.6a958ba0@free-electrons.com> <20161006213626.5147dc08@free-electrons.com> <20161007142118.657d18ee@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20161007221931.28362f04@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 21:34:09 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > I think it is a matter of personal taste. > The fact that : is a shell built-in means that it's a tad faster than > spawning a separate 'true' process, but I really think it does not > matter here. > 'MAKEINFO=true' has the drawback that it gives the impression of > _enabling_ makeinfo, to people that are not used to such > constructions. > 'MAKEINFO=:' has the drawback that it is cryptic; it is even less > known to most people (I think). > So I guess I'll stick to 'true'. Yes, I also think that using "true" is less cryptic. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com