Re: Default NO_CLEAN=yes in 15+

From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:11:02 UTC
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> A few years ago, Ed Maste added a MK_CLEAN option to src.opts.mk to as a
> WITH/WITHOUT knob for the "clean" step similar to NO_CLEAN=yes.  To preserve
> existing behavior this knob currently defaults to on, but I know Ed's goal
> was to eventually flip the default so that NO_CLEAN builds would be the
> default.  I would like us to do that starting in 15.

It already defaults to off (since 473fda75dd6cf in 2016) if you have
filemon(4) loaded and meta mode is not explicitly disabled.

DES
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