Policy on '( ... ) > $C_FIFO 2>&1'

[Dave Brown]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:13:01PM -0800, Auke Kok wrote:
> On 01/24/2013 02:59 PM, v4hn wrote:
> >Hey everyone,
> >
> >We all know the line in the subject well enough.
> >For quite some time now, this line is obsolete though,
> >as far as I know. Last thing I've heard is that
> >we still wanted to leave these lines in all the BUILD files,
> >because people might not have switched to the current version
> >of the lunar toolkit.
> >
> >However, quite some time has passed since then and I would
> >like to propose to strip this additional overhead from all BUILD
> >files either automatically or by hand, whenever you change one
> >of these files.
> >
> >Any opinions?
> 
> strip it!

I agree!

It's just meaningless bureaucracy.  The caller already does that, so
there's no point in keeping it in the build scripts.

The build scripts should care about actually building the module.
Worrying about where its output goes is the job of whatever calls it.

--Dave