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In message <[email protected]>, Yuri Pankov 
writes:
>Trond Endrestøl wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 10:56+0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> 
>>> OK, I figured it out.
>>>
>>> I used to have MK_CTF=no in src.conf, but I recently changed it to
>>> WITH_CTF=no.
>> 
>> It's either WITH_xxx=yes or WITHOUT_xxx=yes.
>
>Or even WITH_xxx= or WITHOUT_xxx=, src.conf(5) explicitly states that 
>value is NOT checked:
>
>The values of variables are ignored regardless of their setting; even if 
>  they would be set to "FALSE" or "NO".  The presence of an option 
>causes it to be honored by make(1).

That is not even close to POLA-compliance...

Obviously negative values ("false", "no") should either be reported as
errors or preferably be respected.

PS: [This is not the bikeshed you are looking for]
 

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