Re: CLANG; still cc in use when building the WORLD with CLANG?

On 08/30/11 21:27, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Hartmann, O.
> <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>  wrote:
>> On 08/30/11 19:58, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>>> On 2011-08-30 18:44, Alex Kuster wrote:
>>>> Thanks for pointing out those details !
>>>> This whole thing about make.conf&    src.conf is very confusing and gives
>>>> the
>>>> impression of something half ported ...
>>> The only thing that is "half ported" at the moment, is an easy "use
>>> clang to build world" switch.  This will be properly addressed after 9.0
>>> is released.  As to the make.conf/src.conf confusion, it is very simple
>>> really:
>>>
>>> - make.conf is used for system-wide settings, applied to every build
>>>   using make.
>>>
>>> - src.conf is used for setting FreeBSD source tree settings, which are
>>>   always of the form WITH_XXX or WITHOUT_XXX.  See src.conf(5) for a
>>>   full list.  Any other "make" settings, such as CC, CFLAGS, etc, are
>>>   better specified in make.conf, though the manpage does not tell you
>>>   so explicitly.
>> This is as I understood the manpage of src.conf. There is only a YES/set and
>> NO/unset.
> No. There is only set and unset. WITH_option="NO" has the same effect as
> WITH_option="YES".
>
> I think this is confusing and often leads to unintended
> consequences, but I and also say that some of the WITH_options documented
> for src.conf (the man page is auto-generated from the code) are either
> non-functional or broken. I've had some interesting issues with unexpected
> interactions of WITH_options, as well. Be very careful!
Sorry being so unprecise. I meant WITH_ and WITHOUT_. I learned the hard 
way that setting a variable
to "be set" is simply done by naming it.

Well, as I understand your comment, it seems that this /etc/src.conf 
facilty isn't working properly yet?
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